Civic virtues and their use in contemporary IUS

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to understand the importance of republicanism and the strong influence that classical thought has had on its construction, especially regarding legal sources. For this, it has been divided into two large sections. On the one hand, there are mentioned some generalities of Cambridge School and Quentin Skinner. On the other hand, it is used a recent publication, Forensic Shakespeare, in order to explain the origin of legal language, its conformation and its use in different performance scenarios, such as, for example, some of Shakespeare’s plays. This understanding of some elements of the Renaissance scenario allows to understand, from the approach of conceptual history and ideas, the need to return to classical sources for a better construction of thought and narrative processes of contemporary legal language; and likewise, to explain the consolidation of republicanism.