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- Description
- 1 online resource (vi, 378 pages)
- Summary
- "Spanish 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"--
- Series Statement
- Jesuit studies : modernity through the prism of Jesuit history, 2214-3289 ; volume 36
- Uniform Title
- Projections of Spanish Jesuit scholasticism on British thought (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Access restricted to authorized users.
- LCCN
- 2022044559
- OCLC
- ssj0002765928
- Title
Projections of Spanish Jesuit scholasticism on British thought [electronic resource] : new horizons in politics, law and rights / edited by Leopoldo J. Prieto López, José Luis Cendejas Bueno.
- Imprint
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
- Series
Jesuit studies : modernity through the prism of Jesuit history, 2214-3289 ; volume 36
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Prieto López, Leopoldo, 1964-
Cendejas Bueno, José Luis.