Concepţia despre stat și drept a Sfântului Toma D’Aquino
The notion of state and law in the works of Thomas Aquinas

Summary/Abstract: The XIIth and XIIIth centuries were a time of change that led to the final conclusion of the Middle Ages and sat the prerequisites for the Renaissance. This paper aims to examine the legal and historical notions of state and law in the perspective of Thomas Aquinas. His work represented a turning point in the evolution of medieval systems of law, both by distancing himself from the classical concept proposed by St. Augustine and by rethinking and emphasizing the role that law can play in the political life of a country. St. Thomas Aquinas reconsidered the Aristotelian concepts in a Christian context (using Arab sources) and justified the legal bases for a papal involvement in the political life of the European continent.

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