Projections of Spanish Jesuit Scholasticism on British Thought

• VerfasserIn: Prieto López, Leopoldo J.,; Cendejas Bueno, José Luis,
• TeilnehmendeR: Cendejas Bueno, José Luis,
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 378 p.); ill

Spanish Jesuits such as Francisco Surez (1548-1617), Jos de Acosta (1540-1600), Pedro de Ribadeneira (1526-1611) and Juan de Mariana (1536-1624) had a powerful impact on English thinkers of the magnitude of John Locke (1632-1704), Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Robert Persons (1546-1610), Algernon Sidney (1623-1683), and, later, William Robertson (1721-1793), Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) and Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953). An influence that was sometimes hidden and always controversial.This work highlights the importance of this influence regarding thought on politics, law and natural rights. A constitutionalist understanding of political power, the recognition and promotion of innate rights and the necessary subjection of rulers to the law, all form part of the important legacy of these scholastic doctors for European intellectual heritage.Contributors to this volume: Rafael Al Ruiz, Francisco T. Baciero Ruiz, Francisco Castilla Urbano, Jos Luis Cendejas Bueno, Alfonso Daz Vera, Francisco Javier Gmez Dez, Cecilia Font de Villanueva, Len M. Gmez Rivas, Fermn del Pino Daz, Leopoldo J. Prieto Lpez, Daniel Schwartz, Lorena Velasco Guerrero, and Mara Idoya Zorroza Huarte.