The School of Salamanca in the Affairs of the Indies: Barbarism and the Political Order

ISBN-13: 9781138960978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 278 str.

Natsuko Matsumori

Opis

The School of Salamanca in the Affairs of the Indies considers the decline of the medieval universal world through the independence and secularization of the political community and the establishment of continuous and imbalanced relations between European and non-European people, through the expansion of European countries. This book reveals the strong contribution of the School of Salamanca. Internally it imposed moral restrictions against "interior barbarism," that is, power beyond the law and externally, it included "exterior barbarism," that is, "barbarian" societies, in the common political order. This book situates the School of Salamanca in the mainstream history of European political thought, drawing attention to the affairs of the Indies and relating them to other contemporary global issues.

Spis treści

Chapter I: The Early-Modern Understanding of Political Order and the School of Salamanca; Chapter II: Reason and Prudence: The Nature of the Indians; Chapter III: Power, Commonwealth, and the Law of Nations: The Legitimacy of the Spanish Dominion over the Indies; Chapter IV: Conditions of Just War: The Conquest of the Indies; Chapter V: Significance and Problems of the Salamancan Understanding of Political Order