The Mystical Foundation of Justice: Contributions of Skepticism in Montaigne, Hume, Foucault

Abstract

After suffering bloody military dictatorships in Latin America in the last decades, debates about the legitimacy of the rule of law and the mechanisms of administration of justice dominate the interest of the Philosophy of Law. In this paper, we bring together two emblematic thinkers of modern skepticism, Michel de Montaigne and David Hume, before pointing out, as a contemporary representative, the contribution of Michel Foucault in his analysis of neoliberalism. In the courses published as The Birth of Biopolitics we find categories of analysis suitable for reflecting on the judicialization of politics, a phenomenon adjudicated to the neoliberal struggle in the region.