natural law , positive law and ss tupinambás in michel montaigne's essays

This article aims to present the vision of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne about natural law and positive law in the work The Essays where the Tupi- nambás serve as stylistic resource for the author to expose his ideas about nature. In the book, Montaigne devotes a chapter to the Brazilian Indians in order to demonstrate the Europeans distante in relation to natural law and also the impossibility of civilized people to access natural laws. As a result, Montaigne understands that positive law is self -referential, a mere product of art characterized by “mystical foundation of the laws au- thority,” a term that indicates the impossibility of transcendent foundation for the laws.