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Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers provides comprehensive accounts of the works of seminal conservative thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions - the first series of its kind. Even the selection of thinkers adds another aspect to conservative thinking, including not only theorists but also thinkers in literary forms and those who are also practitioners. The series comprises twenty volumes, each including an intellectual biography, historical context, critical exposition of the thinker's work, reception and influence, contemporary relevance, bibliography including references to electronic resources and an index.

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Author:   Andre Azevedo Alves ,  Jose Moreira ,  John Meadowcroft
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Volume:   v. 12
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.364kg
ISBN:  

9780826429827

ISBN 10:   0826429823
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   19 January 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Series Introduction Series Editor's Preface Chapter 1 - Historical context and intellectual biography What is the 'School of Salamanca'? The political and intellectual context of the School of Salamanca The decline of scholasticism Some key authors of the School of Salamanca Francisco de VitoriaDomingo de SotoMartín de AzpilcuetaDiego de Covarrubias y LeyaTomás de MercadoBartolomé de las Casas Luis de MolinaJuan de MarianaFrancisco Suárez Chapter 2 - Critical exposition Philosophical and political foundations of the School Thomism and Natural Law The European revival of Thomism and the Salamanca School Theological-political disputes Applied political thought Individual rights and the common good The state and the limits of political power Legitimate resistance and tyrannicide Church and state International law and developments in Just War theory The ethical and juridical framework of the market Private property and trade Just price and the subjective theory of value Usury and interest Theories of banking Monetary theory and inflation Taxation and public finance Chapter 3 - Reception and influence of the work The Salamanca School and the New World A revolutionary sermon in HispaniolaThe social experiments of Bartolomé De Las CasasJust titles and the disputation between Las Casas and Sepúlveda Assessing the legacy of Las Casas and the controversies over the New World Theological-political impact and influence on subsequent authors Chapter 4 - Relevance of the work today Political philosophy, law and history Political economy and the ethical foundations of the market Contemporary Catholic Social Thought International relations and war Concluding remarks BibliographyIndex

Reviews

The importance of the School of Salamanca is slowing increasing in the studies of the origins of our modern Western culture. First, the jurists Brown-Scott, Nys or Barcia Trelles highlighted their importance in the field of International Law (the Vitoria's Ius Gentium, which Grotius settled in Europe in the XVII Century); next they are admired as founders of the science of Economics (already said by Marjorie Grice Hutchinson, Joseph Schumpeter or Raymond de Roover for over more than fifty years and recently confirmed by Chaufuen), and even as forerunners of the Austrian School (Rothbard or Huerta de Soto), due to its proto-liberal thought in many issues related to philosophy, economics and politics.So far, there have been few studies on these topics --scattered, difficult to find, and in many cases published in Spanish. Indeed, this complete study on the late Scholastics in Spain, Europe and America was necessary. It is provided by professors Alves, Meadowcroft, and Moreira, who off

Author Information

José Moreira is a Professor of Economics at the Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal. André Azavedo Alves is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Catholic University of Portugal.

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