Domingo de Salazar’s Letter to the King of Spain in Defense of the Indians and the Chinese of the Philippine Islands (1582)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina H. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Population ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Dominican Order ◽  
Philip Ii ◽  
Las Casas ◽  
Bartolome De Las Casas ◽  
Francisco De Vitoria ◽  
Insight Into

Domingo de Salazar (c.1512–1594) was the first bishop of the Philippines, a member of the Dominican order, and a follower of noted critics of the Spanish imperial enterprise like the jurist Francisco de Vitoria and the historian/activist Bartolomé de las Casas. In this letter to King Philip II, Salazar denounces the abuses of the indigenous population and the mistreatment of Chinese migrants by the Spanish colonists, and calls upon the crown to intervene in the colony’s affairs. In so doing, he provides invaluable insight into the work of colonization, and the complex relationship that the Spanish Philippines developed with China and with the burgeoning Chinese population of the islands themselves. Christina Lee provides biographical and historical context.

scholarly journals Aportes de Bartolomé de las Casas a la teoría actual de los derechos humanos

Hallazgos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (33) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Wilmar Pino Montoya
Keyword(s):  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
Las Casas ◽  
Bartolome De Las Casas ◽  
Francisco De Vitoria

La tesis principal de este trabajo es argumentar que los principios pensados por Bartolomé de las Casas que le sirvieron para defender los aborígenes de América de los actos de los españoles, parten del concepto filosófico de hombre y de los argumentos sustraídos, principalmente de la tradición aristotélica, las teorías de Tomas de Aquino, Francisco de Vitoria, del cristianismo y de su experiencia como clérigo y encomendero en las tierras americanas. Por otra parte, sustentar que aun su pensamiento le aporta a la reflexión actual de los derechos humanos y a la construcción y consolidación de los Estados democráticos contemporáneos.

Human Sacrifice: Religious Act or Vicious Desire? Testing the Limits of Tolerance with Vitoria and Las Casas

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgardo Colón-Emeric
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Human Sacrifice ◽  
Las Casas ◽  
Bartolome De Las Casas ◽  
Francisco De Vitoria

AbstractTolerance is often considered a modern social development. However, a robust, if distinctly unmodern, concept of tolerance can be found in the work of Thomas Aquinas. The object of tolerance is a perceived evil which is endured for the sake of averting a greater evil. The paper explores how the concept of tolerance which Bartolomé de las Casas and Francisco de Vitoria inherited from Thomas Aquinas was deployed and stretched in response to the Amerindian cult of human sacrifice. Both Spanish Dominicans concur in regarding human sacrifice as an evil act, but they base their judgment on different principles. Las Casas interprets human sacrifice as a question of religion. Vitoria considers it a question of temperance. The result is that Las Casas counsels toleration of the practice, whereas Vitoria justifies military intervention on behalf of the innocent.

The King's Surprise: The Mission Methodology of Toribio de Mogrovejo

1993 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary M. McGlone
Keyword(s):  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
New World ◽  
Philip Ii ◽  
Las Casas ◽  
Bartolome De Las Casas ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Church

In 1579 King Philip II selected the presiding inquisitor of Granada as the second archbishop of Los Reyes, or Lima. Countering precedents which favored the episcopal nomination of priests who had spent time in the New World, Philip chose Toribio de Mogrovejo, a man totally lacking in both clerical and missionary experience, to preside over the most important episcopal see in the Southern hemisphere. That curious choice revealed Philip's strategy for the future of the church of the Viceroyalty of Peru. Philip presumably named the young jurist to implement a rigorous organization of the Church in the territory that retiring Viceroy Francisco de Toledo had only recently brought under effective civil governance. This article will demonstrate that, contrary to Philip's expectations, Toribio de Mogrovejo not only failed toinstill a Toledan spirit in the Church, but that he actively developed a mission methodology in accord with that promoted by Bartolomé de Las Casas and his followers in Peru.

Situated Political Theory in Latin America

2019 ◽  
pp. 60-81
Author(s):  
Katherine A. Gordy
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Las Casas ◽  
Simon Bolivar ◽  
Bartolome De Las Casas

Many Latin American theorists have addressed how and why to understand and engage with political thought produced in a different geographical and historical context and how to engage with abstract theoretical principles while also situating those principles within specific contexts. This chapter treats three particularly illustrative examples: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Simón Bolívar, and José Carlos Mariátegui. Writing in different periods and settings, and with distinct concerns, they vary in their degree of self-consciousness about and engagement with European political thought, yet all three engage with “Western” political thought strategically, selectively, and self-consciously to address localized problems and produce localized political results. Doing so showed the limits of the same European universalizing theories with which they engaged. All three thinkers illustrate the importance of situating political thought and of understanding how ideas settle in different contexts and can be put to different uses.

scholarly journals The "Spanish" Origins of International Human Rights Law: A Historiographical Review

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard P Boast
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Las Casas ◽  
Bartolome De Las Casas ◽  
International Human ◽  
Francisco De Vitoria

This article critically reviews the claim that the Spanish jurist-theologians Francisco de Vítoria and Bartolomé de las Casas, and their successors, were pioneers of human rights theory and of the law relating to the rights of indigenous peoples. The article seeks to clarify the literature relating to these claims by dividing it into various categories and analysing each in turn. A principal aim of the article is to convey the sheer diversity and scale of the various competing historiographies and the extent to which they stand in contrast to each other. By way of conclusion, there is a discussion of those parts of the debate which are of greatest relevance and resonance for a jurisdiction such as New Zealand, where questions about the origins and nature of indigenous rights law are not merely a matter of theoretical interest, but also of great practical relevance.

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