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School of Salamanca

16th century · 16th century

The School of Salamanca was a group of 16th-century Spanish theologians and jurists, led by Francisco de Vitoria and including Domingo de Soto, Luis de Molina and Francisco Suárez. Reviving Thomist natural law, they debated the rights of the conquered peoples of the Americas, laid foundations of international law later taken up by Hugo Grotius, and pioneered economic ideas on money and prices.

School of Salamanca
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). School of Salamanca. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/school-of-salamanca
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