Some Notes on a Controversial Controversy
Juan Ginés de Supúlveda and Natural Servitude
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7789417 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert E Quirk (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1954 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 357 |
| Publication date | 1954-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2508897 |
| OpenAlex | W4256699729 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
r HE HEAT ENGENDERED by the debate between Bartolome de Las Casas and Juan Gines de Sepuilveda in 1550 at Valladolid has long since subsided. What the two formidable antagonists said there is recorded history.1 How to interpret what was said is another matter. On this point another controversy has arisen to revive issues dead for 400 years as Lewis Hanke, new apostle, and Edmundo O'Gorman, neo-humanist, re-enact with amiability but determination the drama of the argument between the sixteenth-century cleric and Aristotelian man of letters.2 Haiike has been an able champion for Las Casas; O'Gorman has recognized the merit of Las Casas' argumentation and at the same time has conceded to Sepuilveda his meed of honor.3 Through the zealous activity of scholars such as Hanlke, O 'Gorman, Silvio Zavala, and Agustin Y'aiiez, Las Casas' greatness is no longer in doubt. Unfortunately, Sepuilveda seems to emerge from modern research, for the Englishreading public at least, almost the Devil 's Advocate, a man who preached the enslavement of the American Indians.4 It is a role he
Archaeology · Art · Natural (archaeology) · History · Latin American history and culture · Philosophy
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| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1975 - 2011 (37) |
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