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Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda
Spanish theologian and royal historian who argued that war on the Indians could be just.
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Spanish theologian and royal historian who argued that war on the Indians could be just.
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intervened in
- Valladolid debate 1550 argued for the lawfulness of war on the Indians; reasons as MacNutt lists them According to Francis Augustus MacNutt Scholarship & press 1
involved in
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Valladolid debate
According to Francis Augustus MacNutt
Scholarship & press
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The four reasons MacNutt lists for Sepúlveda; MacNutt is the summarist.
appears in
- Bartholomew de Las Casas: his life, apostolate, and writings his four reasons, as MacNutt lists them According to Francis Augustus MacNutt Scholarship & press 1
authored
- Democrates Secundus Scholarship & press 1
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- 1550 Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda intervened in Valladolid debate According to Francis Augustus MacNutt
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Bartholomew de Las Casas: his life, apostolate, and writings, by Francis Augustus MacNutt (1909; text via Project Gutenberg #23466), Project Gutenberg (from the edition published by Arthur H. Clark, Cleveland, 1909), 1909.
Scholarship & press
Because of the rudeness of their heathen and barbarous natures, which oblige them to serve those of more elevated natures, such as the Spaniards possess.
Because of the gravity of their sins, particularly the practice of idolatry and other sins against nature.
For the spread of the faith; for their subjection renders its preaching easier and more persuasive.
On account of the harm they do to one another, killing men to sacrifice them and some, in order to eat them.
he composed a second dialogue, _Democrates II. De justis belli causis apud Indios_, in which he upheld the right of the Spaniards to make war on the Indians
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