The role of the Valentior pars for the maintenance of liberty in Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor Pacis

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  • Manuel Mendez Alonzo University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

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https://doi.org/10.4013/fsu.2013.142.02

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The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of the community in the legislative work in Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor pacis. Firstly, I will make a small biographical outline of Marsilius of Padua. Secondly, I will mention the importance of the community in the legislative work, but I will also define the concept of communitas. I suggest that in Marsilius’s political system the princes are restrained by the legislative force of the citizen body. Finally, I will explain the condition in which the citizen’s liberty is protected. In my contention, for Marsilius liberty is the capacity of the body of citizens to participate in the public affairs of the city. In this way, I attempt to demonstrate the existence of an implicit republican preference in the Defensor pacis.

Key words: secular power, liberty, civitas, universitas civium, communitas.

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Manuel Mendez Alonzo, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Manuel Méndez Alonzo

PhD Candidate Philosophy, University of Ljubljana

Faculty of Art, Department of Philosophy

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2013-08-14

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MENDEZ ALONZO, M. The role of the Valentior pars for the maintenance of liberty in Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor Pacis. Filosofia Unisinos / Unisinos Journal of Philosophy, São Leopoldo, v. 14, n. 2, p. 128–138, 2013. DOI: 10.4013/fsu.2013.142.02. Disponível em: https://www.revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/filosofia/article/view/fsu.2013.142.02. Acesso em: 23 may. 2025.

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