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José de Acosta e a fundamentação da lei natural

2015; Linguagem: Inglês

10.21747/21836892/fil32a4

2183-6892

Lúcio Álvaro Marques,

Historical Studies in Latin America

The work De procuranda indorum salute, by José de Acosta, remains unknown in the lands where its redactions were inspired.We include Acosta so as Martín de Azpilcueta, Francisco de Vitoria, Bartolomeu de Las Casas, Juan Guinés de Sepúlveda -and so many others writers that performed great intelectual activities about and in Latin America -in the list of "historic analphabetism", because these authors that made so much for the thought of our continent haven't been appreciated yet.The work of Acosta differs in the use he makes of the ecclesiastical and philosophical sources as in the method in relation to, for example, Bartolomeu de Las Casas, whose completed works will be published soon.Because of that, his work deserves that we study carefully the sources as the content to answer to fundamental questions: which is the place of the "philosophy" and "theology" in Acosta's thought?Which is the value of the method and of the content propose by him to think the transmission of christianity?Here are the issues discussed in this article.