Vitoria Political Writings

Name: Vitoria Political Writings
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ISBN: 9780521367141

ISBN-10: 052136714X

ISBN-13: 9780521367141

Edition: 1991

Authors: Francisco de Vitoria, Anthony Pagden, Jeremy Lawrance, Raymond Geuss, Quentin Skinner

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Francisco Vitoria was the earliest and arguably the most important of the Thomist political philosophers of the Counter-Reformation. Not only did he write important essays on civil and ecclesiastical power, but he became celebrated for his defence of the new world Indians against the imperialism of his own master, the King of Spain. Vitoria's political works are thus of great importance for an understanding both of the rise of modern absolutism, and the debate about the emergent imperialism of the European powers. His works are also unusually accessible, since they survive mainly in the form of 'relectiones', or summaries delivered at the end of his lecture courses on law and theology at…

Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/31/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 442
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Anthony Pagden is Harry C. Black Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University.



Editors+ note


Abbreviations and sigla


Introduction


Principal events in Vitoria+s life


Bibliographical note


Critical note on texts and translation



On civil power



On the power of the Church



On the power of the Church



On law: lectures on ST I-II 90-105



On dietary laws, self-restraint (extract)



On the American Indians



On the law of war


List of references


Biographical notes


Glossary-index