Relectiones De Indis i De iure belli (Carnegie Classics, trad. Bate, 1917)

Francisco de Vitoria

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anglès

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Complete work

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Written by the author

THE FIRST RELECTIO Of the Reverend Father, Brother Franciscus de Victoria, ON THE INDIANS LATELY DISCOVERED. The passage to he discussed is from St. Matthew s Gospel: “ Teach ali nations, baptizing them in the name of the F ather and Son and Holy Spirit,” last chapter. 1. 2. 3- 8. 9- SUMMARY OF THE FIRST SECTION. How a person in doubt on any matter, to obtain safety of conscience, should consuit those whose business it is to give instruction in such matters. After one in doubt has taken such ad vice he ought to follow what the wise have laid down, else he will not be safe. . , Whether one in doubt ought, consistently with safety of conscience, to tollow the advice given by the wise in a doubtful matter when they lay down that to be now lawful which in other circumstances is unlawful. Whether the Indian aborigines before the arrival of the Spamards were true owners in public and in private law; and whether there were among them any true princes and overlords. . Examination of the error of those who assert that persons living in mortal sin can not have ownership of anything at ali. Mortal sin does not preclude civil ownership of the true kind. Whether ownership is lost by reason of unbelief. , , . , Examination of the error of those who assert that persons living in mortal sin can not have ownership of anything at ali. Mortal sin does not preclude civil ownership of the true kind. Whether ownership is lost by reason of unbelief. , , . , The divine law does not make heresy a cause of forfeiture 01 the heretic s property. Whether heresy causes loss of ownership by human law. A heretic incurs the penalty of confiscation of his property as from the date of the commission of his

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