Abstract
In order to systematically explore the normative treatment of black slavery by Second Scholastic thinkers, who usually place the problem within the broad discussion of moral conscience and, more narrowly, the nature and justice of trade and contracts, I propose two stations of research that may be helpful for future studies, especially concerning the study of Scholastic ideas in colonial Latin America. Beginning with the analysis of just titles for slavery and slavery trade proposed by Luis de Molina S.J. (1535–1600), I show how his accounts were critically reviewed by Diego de Avendaño S.J. (1594–1688), revealing basic features of Second Scholasticism’s normative thinking in Europe and the Americas. The normative knowledge provided by these two Scholastic intellectuals would be profoundly tested during the last decades of the 17th century, especially by authors who sharpened the systemic analysis and a rigorist moral assessment of every title of slavery and slaveholding, as well as the requirements of an ethics of restitution.
Highlights
In order to systematically explore the normative treatment of black slavery by Second Scholastic thinkers, who usually place the problem within the broad discussion of moral conscience and, more narrowly, the nature and justice of trade and contracts, I propose two stations of research that may be helpful for future studies, especially concerning the study of Scholastic ideas in colonial Latin America
In spite of views according to which Avendaño strongly and unequivocally condemned the slave trade[5] and even slavery simpliciter[6], the details of his overall position, especially due to the role of his probabilism in practical philosophy[7], are more difficult to establish – his defense of blacks and his criticism of the slave trade are most notorious[8]
IX, c. xii, § 89, we see that his exposition contains (i) a description of views proposed by major Jesuit authors (Tomás Sánchez, Luis de Molina, Fernando Rebello, etc.) as well as (ii) his own views, including seven intriguing reasons for slave trade[10]
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Segunda Escolástica e escravidão negra (Continuação e fim) Segunda Escolástica y esclavitud negra (Continuación y fin). Artigo está licenciado sob forma de uma licença Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 Internacional
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