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Book SynopsisSpanish Jesuits such as Francisco Suárez (1548–1617), José 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 Alé Ruiz, Francisco T. Baciero Ruiz, Francisco Castilla Urbano, José Luis Cendejas Bueno, Alfonso Díaz Vera, Francisco Javier Gómez Díez, Cecilia Font de Villanueva, León M. Gómez Rivas, Fermín del Pino Díaz, Leopoldo J. Prieto López, Daniel Schwartz, Lorena Velasco Guerrero, and María Idoya Zorroza Huarte.
Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Introduction: Projections of Spanish Jesuit Scholasticism on British Thought: New Horizons in Politics, Law, and Rights Leopoldo José Prieto López and José Luis Cendejas Bueno 1 Francisco Suárez and the Whig Political Tradition: The Case of Algernon Sidney Leopoldo José Prieto López 2 Subjective Rights, Political Community, and Property in Francisco Suárez’s and John Locke’s Theories of the State of Nature José Luis Cendejas Bueno 3 Traces of the Jesuit José de Acosta in the Scottish Enlightenment Thinker William Robertson Fermín del Pino-Díaz 4 Natural History: From José de Acosta’s Model to Francis Bacon’s Proposals Francisco Castilla Urbano 5 Understanding Thomas De Quincey’s Kantian Defense of Casuistry Daniel Schwartz 6 Francisco Suárez and John Locke: Notes on the Diffusion of Suarezian Thought in Seventeenth-Century England Francisco T. Baciero Ruiz 7 Tyranny and the Usurpation of Spiritual Power: Pedro de Ribadeneyra, Francisco Suárez, and Robert Persons Francisco Javier Gómez Díez 8 Francisco Suárez and the “Distributist Movement”: From Jesuit Political Philosophy to Post-Scholastic Economics Alfonso Díaz Vera 9 Ethics, Money, and Finance in the Late Scholastics: Francisco Suárez on Taxation León M. Gómez Rivas 10 The Binding Nature of Civil Norms on Foreigners in the Treatise De legibus ac Deo legislatore by Francisco Suárez Lorena Velasco Guerrero 11 Monetary Alterations in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries in Castile and England: Juan de Mariana and John Locke Cecilia Font de Villanueva 12 On John Locke, Francisco Suárez, and a Revision of Property in the Enterprise Model Rafael Alé-Ruiz and Mª. Idoya Zorroza Conclusion Leopoldo José Prieto López and José Luis Cendejas Bueno Bibliography Index
