Vitoria
Subtitle: Political Writings
By: Francisco de Vitoria ; edited by Anthony Pagden and Jeremy Lawrance.
Contributors: Pagden, Anthony.; Lawrance, Jeremy.
Series: Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Power (Social sciences)
Description: Francisco Vitoria was the earliest and arguably the most important of the Thomist philosophers of the counter-Reformation. His works are of great importance for an understanding of both the rise of modern absolutism, and the debate about the emergent imperialism of the European powers, and are unusually accessible since they survive in the form of summaries of his lecture courses on law and theology. Translated here into English for the first time, these texts comprise the core of Vitoria's thought, and are accompanied by a comprehensive introduction, chronology, and bibliography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-387) and index.
Translation of selected texts.