Tomás de Aquino e Epifanio de Moirans: guerra justa e escravidão

Abstract

Analysis of the relatioship between just war and slavery in Aquinas and Epifanio de Moirans. I will argue that Aquinas’ work cannot be seen as a slave project based on his notion of just war. Epifanio de Moirans’ work represents an exemple of receiving Thomas Aquinas’ thought and his moral criteria about war. Moirans integrates Aquinas’ vision in his anti-slavery discourse on the titles of slavery by just war during the Scholastica colonialis, that is, during the period of reception and development of Baroque Scholasticism in Latin America (16th-17th centuries).