vol. 1 núm. 1 (2022): filosofia y humanismo

e purpose of this reection article is to suggest some keysthat, from the thought of omas Aquinas, allow us to rethinkColombian democracy beyond the deliberative democracy (ofHabermas) that some consider adequate for the developmentof a Stable and Lasting Peace. (PED), aer the NationalGovernment-FARC-EP Final Agreement. It is argued, from ahermeneutical qualitative approach, that the issue regardingthe post-conict in Colombia has not allowed to read peacefrom a non-liberal canon. us, it is questioned whether theproblem of peace could have a certain denitive reconciliationof the Legitimacy-Validity-Ecacy (LVE) relationship throughHabermas’s communicative proceduralism. Noting that theapproach to the theme of peace in Aquinas puts the commongood and not the individual at the center of the discussion. estudy begins with a historical contextualization of the peaceprocesses in Colombia. He continues with a contrast betweenHabermas’s liberal individualist notions of consensus and theomistic notion of political peace; and concludes with someideas to re-think Colombian democracy in a post-conictscenario. Showing that liberal individualism, by holding thatthe only source of legitimacy of the political-legal order is theindividual, ends up reducing political activity to a transaction;thereby forgetting that “the good of a single man is not theultimate goal, but is ordered to the common good” because:i) peace is an essential condition of the perfect community,ii) achieved through the diligence of political leaders for iii) the improvement of citizens in pursuit of the common good-truth-perfection unity- from the metaphysical substratum of being a person.