Law and Apocalypse: The Moral Thought of Luis De León (1527?–1591)

This book has two purposes. The first is clearly historical, the second is more philosophical and interpretive. Its success in the former will be less arguable than its attainment of the latter. The contribution to the history of Spanish letters consists in critically establishing the fact that the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kottman, Karl A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1972, 1972
Edition:1st ed. 1972
Series:International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I Introduction
  • II Christian Hebraism: Its Thomistic Bases and Its Presence in Luis de León
  • III Domingo Soto’s Definition of Fus Gentium, Fray Luis de León’s De Legibus, and the Law of the Decalog
  • IV Fray Luis’ Social Theory
  • V Morality and National Destiny in Fray Luis