Tomás de Mercado on slavery: just according to law, unjust in practice
Abstract
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.Downloads
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