Tomás de Aquino and Epifanio de Moirans: just war and slavery

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https://doi.org/10.36517/Argumentos.24.17

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Aquinas. Epifanio de Moirans. War. Justice. Slavery

Abstract

Analysis of the relatioship between just war and slavery in Aquinas and Epifanio de Moirans. I will argue that Aquinas’ work cannot be seen as a slave project based on his notion of just war. Epifanio de Moirans’ work represents an exemple of receiving Thomas Aquinas’ thought and his moral criteria about war. Moirans integrates Aquinas’ vision in his anti-slavery discourse on the titles of slavery by just war during the Scholastica colonialis, that is, during the period of reception and development of Baroque Scholasticism in Latin America (16th-17th centuries).

Author Biography

Luis Carlos Silva de Sousa, Universidade de Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira

Doutor em História da Filosofia (Medieval) pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). Professor efetivo da Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira (UNILAB-CE). Área de Atuação: Filosofia Medieval.

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