Luis De Molina and the Legal Humanism of the Salamanca School

The conquest posed to the Salamanca jurists two capital questions: one, on the right to the conquest of the territory; another, on the subsequent occupation and sovereignty over consciences. These were pressing questions of the Alexandrian bulls; and the legal humanism of the School of Salamanca res...

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Autor: Mañón Garibay, Guillermo José
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Revista Mexicana de Historia del Derecho
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/14061
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.juridicas.unam.mx/index.php/historia-derecho/article/view/14061
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:spiritual conquest
human freedom
choice against the greater good
conquista espiritual
libertad humana
elección contra el mayor bien
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Sumario:The conquest posed to the Salamanca jurists two capital questions: one, on the right to the conquest of the territory; another, on the subsequent occupation and sovereignty over consciences. These were pressing questions of the Alexandrian bulls; and the legal humanism of the School of Salamanca resided in the concern to regulate, on just and adequate grounds, the freedom of choice of the subject Indians, taking into account the system of “repartimientos” and “encomiendas” that had taken a nature charter in the New World and that stole it. The exposition of the concept of free will of Molina tried to explain the possibility of an election of the natives against the “greater good”, against the faith of the conquerors.