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Francisco de Vitoria, OP (Francisco de Victoria; c. 1483, Vitoria - 12 August 1546, Salamanca) raised in Burgos, was a Spanish Renaissance Roman Catholic philosopher, theologian and jurist, founder of the tradition in philosophy known as the School of Salamanca, noted especially for his contributions to the theory of . Francisco de Vitoria : addresses in commemoration of the fourth centenary of his lectures "De Indis" and "De iure belli", 1532-1932 ; delivered at the Catholic University of America, May 1, 1932. . Accordingly I for the most part attribute their seeming so unintelligent and stupid to a bad and barbarous upbringing, for even among ourselves we find many peasants who differ little from brutes. . The authorities in Madrid did not approve. . I however forbad that these trifles and articles of no value (such as pieces of dishes, plates, and glass, keys, and leather straps) should be given to them, although if they could obtain them, they imagined themselves to be possessed of the most beautiful trinkets in the world. This article attempts to offer an alternative interpretation of Francisco de Vitoria's international thought. . . . . In doing so, he helped develop just war theory. Francisci de Victoria, De Indis et De ivre belli, relectiones. . Writings of Christopher Columbus: Descriptive of the Discovery and Occupation of the New World, Paul Leicester Ford, ed. . The authorities in Madrid did not approve. On my arrival at that sea, I had taken some Indians by force from the first island that I came to, in order that they might learn our language, and communicate to us what they knew respecting the country; which plan succeeded excellently, and was a great advantage to us, for in a short time, either by gestures and signs, or by words, we were enabled to understand each other. . Our proposition receives further proof from the use and custom of the Church. . 23. . There remains another, a sixth title, which is put forward, namely, by voluntary choice. For never have Christian Emperors, who had as advisors the most holy and wise Pontiffs, made war on unbelievers for their refusal to accept the Christian religion. In De Indis, Vitoria begins by stating some general ideas about man. Francisco de Vitoria (or Victoria), OP (c. 1483, Burgos or Vitoria-Gasteiz - 12 August 1546, Salamanca), was a Spanish Renaissance Roman Catholic philosopher, theologian and jurist. . This is proved from the fact that the true state of the case is that they are not of unsound mind, but have, according to their kind, the use of reason. . 18. This, however, must not be pushed beyond what the necessity of the war may demand and what the custom of lawful belligerents has allowed. Some say he was born somewhere between 1480 and 1492, others situate his birth between 1483 and 1493. Sixth proposition: If after recourse to all other measures, the Spaniards are unable to obtain safety as regards the native Indians, save by seizing their cities and reducing them to subjection, they may lawfully proceed to these extremities. . I say there would be some force in this contention. This man was called Pope, as if to say, Admirable Great Father and Governor of men. Francisco de Vitoria was a professor of sacred theology at the University of Salamanca and presented the following arguments in 1532. The Life and Apostolic Labors of the Venerable Fat Ch. They had to carry the Spaniards on their shoulders in a carriage or a kind of bed woven by the Indians. . . . 14. Assuming the unlawfulness of the slaughter of children and other innocent parties, is it permissible, at any rate, to carry them off into captivity and slavery? . . He argued for limits on what could legitimately be done to the indigenous people. How to treat the indigenous people became an issue as soon as the Spanish arrived in the Western Hemisphere. But, on account of the multitude which has sprung from this man and woman in the five thousand years since the world was created, it was necessary that some men should go one way and some another, and that they should be divided into many kingdoms and provinces, for in one alone they could not be sustained. Nor does the Philosopher mean that, if any by nature are of weak mind, it is permissible to seize their patrimony and enslave them and put them up for sale; but what he means is that by defect of their nature they need to be ruled and governed by others and that it is good for them to be subject to others, just as sons need to be subject to their parents until of full age, and a wife to her husband. For it is alleged that, though their unbelief or their rejection of the Christian faith is not a good reason for making war on them, yet they may be attacked for other mortal sins which (so it is said) they have in numbers, and those very heinous. They carry however in lieu of arms, canes dried in the sun, on the ends of which they fix heads of dried wood sharpened to a point, and even these they dare not use habitually; for it has often occurred when I have sent two or three of my men to any of the villages to speak with the natives, that they have come out in a disorderly troop, and have fled in such haste at the approach of our men, that the fathers forsook their children and the children their fathers. . In addition to the converts to Catholicism that Columbus mentions, the Spanish sought gold. . 3), and it is a sacrilege to approach under the influence of servile fear as far as the mysteries and sacraments of Christ. This conclusion is definitely stated by St. Thomas (Secunda Secundae, qu. How do the arguments presented both for and against the conquest of the Native American population compare to those used by, Compare the attitudes and policies towards Native Americans expressed here with those of, Descriptions of North America (includes France, Mexico, Caribbean), by Bartolom de Las Casas, Christopher Columbus, Francisco de Vitoria & Juan Lpez de Palacios Rubios, Edited and introduced by Sarah Morgan Smith. Of all these nations God our Lord gave charge to one man, called St. Peter, that he should be Lord and Superior of all the men in the world, that all should obey him, and that he should be the head of the whole human race, wherever men should live, and under whatever law, sect, or belief they should be; and he gave him the world for his kingdom and jurisdiction. . Ernest Nys (Washington, D. C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1917). Are de Vitorias arguments compatible with the Requerimientos or do they differ? Francisco de Vitoria and His Disciples 3. He argued for limits on what could legitimately be done to the indigenous people. Now, no such are adduced by prophets of this type. Francisco de Vitoria, (born probably 1486, Vitoria, lava, Castiledied August 12, 1546), Spanish theologian best remembered for his defense of the rights of the Indians of the New World against Spanish colonists and for his ideas of the limitations of justifiable warfare. (New York: C. L. Webster, 1892), 3351. . [I]f the aborigines had not dominion, it would seem that no other cause is assignable therefor except that they were sinners or were unbelievers or were witless or irrational. [Appealing to various authorities, de Vitoria argues that the aborigines cannot be deprived of their property because they are sinners.]. . The upshot of all the preceding is, then, that the aborigines undoubtedly had true dominion in both public and private matters, just like Christians, and that neither their princes nor private persons could be despoiled of their property on the ground of their not being true owners. 16. It is this: Although the aborigines in question are (as has been said above) not wholly unintelligent, yet they are little short of that condition, and so are unfit to found or administer a lawful State up to the standard required by human and civil claims. Now, the most conspicuous feature of man is reason, and power is useless which is not reducible to action. In all these islands there is no difference of physiognomy, of manners, or of language, but they all clearly understand each other, a circumstance very propitious for the realization of what I conceive to be the principal wish of our most serene King, namely, the conversion of these people to the holy faith of Christ, to which indeed, as far as I can judge, they are very favorable and well-disposed. Therefore [they cannot be punished] because they do not receive the judgment of the Pope, for the latter presupposes the former. The life of the Dominican Francisco de Vitoria (1480 or 1492/93-1546) (2) encompassed the discovery and the beginnings of the conquest of the New World. This is clear, because there is a certain method in their affairs, for they have polities which are orderly arranged and they have definite marriage and magistrates, overlords, laws, and workshops, and a system of exchange, all of which call for the use of reason; they also have a kind of religion. There is another title which can indeed not be asserted, but brought up for discussion, and some think it a lawful one. . Assuming the unlawfulness of the slaughter of children and other innocent parties, is it permissible, at any rate, to carry them off into captivity and slavery? . But, the writers in question admit both Innocent and Augustinus of Ancona, and the Archbishop and Sylvester, too that they cannot be punished because they do not receive Christ. But, if you do not do this, and maliciously make delay in it, I certify to you that, with the help of God, we shall powerfully enter into your country, and shall make war against you in all ways and manners that we can, and shall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church and of their Highnesses; we shall take you and your wives and your children, and shall make slaves of them, and as such shall sell and dispose of them as their Highnesses may command; and we shall take away your goods, and shall do you all the mischief and damage that we can, as to vassals who do not obey, and refuse to receive their lord, and resist and contradict him; and we protest that the deaths and losses which shall accrue from this are your fault, and not that of their Highnesses, or ours, nor of these cavaliers who come with us. It remains to reply to the argument . For this is the respect in which all the danger to soul and salvation lies. 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