Hispanic philosophy in the age of discovery / edited by Kevin White.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

White, Kevin, 1952- editor.

Series:

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; Volume 29.

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; Volume 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Spanish.

Spain--Intellectual life--1516-1700.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 326 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [1997]

Summary:

This volume presents 15 studies occasioned by the 500th anniversary of the European discovery of America. It covers both the initial encounters between the Europeans and native Americans and the golden age of Hispanic philosophy that followed the discover.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

PART I

1. JORGE J. E. GRACIA, Hispanic Philosophy: Its Beginning and Golden Age

PART II

2. MAURICIO BEUCHOT, The Philosophical Discussion of the Legitimacy of the Conquest of Mexico in the Sixteenth Century

3. JOHN P. DOYLE, Vitoria on Choosing to Replace a King

4. MARCELO SANCHEZ-SORONDO, Vitoria: The Original Philosopher of Rights

5. EDUARDO ANDUJAR, Bartolome de Las Casas and Juan Gines de Sepulveda: Moral Theology versus Political Philosophy

6. RAFAEL ALVIRA AND ALFREDO CRUZ, The Controversy between Las Casas and Sepulveda at Valladolid

PART III

7. WILLIAM A. WALLACE, Domingo de Soto and the Iberian Roots of Galileo's Science

8. JUAN ANTONIO WIDOW, The Economic Teachings of Spanish Scholastics

9. JEAN DE GROOT, Teresa of Avila and the Meaning of Mystical Theology

10. YVES FLOUCAT, The Christian Mysticism of St. John of the Cross and the Metaphysics of Being

11. MIRKO SKARICA, The Problem of God's Foreknowledge and Human Free Action in Spanish Philosophy

PART IV

12. NORMAN WELLS, Suarez and a Salamancan Thomist: A Tale of a Text

13. STEPHEN MENN, Suarez, Nominalism, and Modes

14. CARLOS G. NOREN-A, Francisco Suarez on Democracy and International Law

PART V

15. JOHN DEELY, A New Beginning in Philosophy: Poinsot's Contribution to the Seventeenth-Century Search

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8132-3059-4

OCLC:

1032070885