Tomás de Mercado on slavery: just according to law, unjust in practice
The article reconstructs the thought of the Dominican theologian Tomás de Mercado regarding black slavery. Although it is not a subject he deals with very extensively, his considerations and arguments, especially from the point of view of economic morality (or a morality of economy), as expressed in...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/petm/article/view/7750 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=patris&d=7750_oai |
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| Sumario: | The article reconstructs the thought of the Dominican theologian Tomás de Mercado regarding black slavery. Although it is not a subject he deals with very extensively, his considerations and arguments, especially from the point of view of economic morality (or a morality of economy), as expressed in his Sum of Treaties and Contracts (1571), are of great philosophical interest and originality as is a whole generation of contemporary intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic. |
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