How Did Aquinas Influence The Dominicans At Salamanca

Soto (1494-1560), Bartolemo Las Casas (1474-1566), Domingo Banez (1528-1640), and the Jesuit Francisco Suarez (1548–1617). These Dominican Renaissance scholastic philosophers developed accounts of natural law, political and legal theory. The University of Salamanca emerged as the leading center of the study of Aquinas's works. Lisska (2004) notes that “these Dominican Friars, well trained in the classical Thomism then common in Spanish universities, articulated the issues central to the Aristotelian concepts of distributive justice and not the set of issues connected with absolute liberty, or what philosophers like Rawls refer to as “liberties.”(p.8). Thus the work of Aquinas influenced the Dominicans at Salamanca who developed an intellectualist