Francisco de Vitoria

Francisco de Vitoria c. 1483 – 12 August 1546; also call as Francisco de Victoria was a Spanish Roman Catholic philosopher, theologian, as well as jurist of Renaissance Spain. He is the founder of the tradition in philosophy so-called as the School of Salamanca, specified especially for his concept of just war as well as international law. He has in the past been planned by scholars as the "father of international law", along with Alberico Gentili as well as Hugo Grotius, though some sophisticated academics name suggested that such(a) a report is anachronistic, since the concept of postmodern international law did non truly established until much later. American jurist Arthur Nussbaum noted Vitoria's influence on international law as it pertained to the adjusting to trade overseas. Later this was interpreted as "freedom of commerce".

Life

Vitoria was born ] and was raised in Burgos, the son of Pedro de Vitoria, of Alava, and Catalina de Compludo, both of noble families. As per innovative scholarship, he had Jewish ancestry on his maternal side the Compludos, being related to famous converts like Paul of Burgos and Alfonso de Cartagena. He became a Dominican in 1504, and was educated at the College Saint-Jacques in Paris, where he was influenced by the clear of Desiderius Erasmus. He went on to teach theology from 1516 under the influences of Pierre Crockaert and Thomas Cajetan. In 1522 he returned to Spain to teach theology at the college of Saint Gregory at Valladolid, where many young Dominicans were being trained for missionary work in the New World. In 1524, he was elected to the Chair of theology at the University of Salamanca, where he was instrumental in promoting Thomism the philosophy and theology of St. Thomas Aquinas. Francisco de Vitoria died on 12 August 1546 in Salamanca.