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GARCIA-HUIDOBRO, Joaquín  e  PEREZ LASSERRE, Diego. Bartolomé de Las Casas y la idealización de las ciudades de los indios. Scripta Mediaevalia [online]. 2016, vol.9, n.2, pp.157-186. ISSN 1851-8753.

In his discussion about the status of the inhabitants of the New World, Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartolomé de Las Casas evoke arguments from the book I of Aristotle's Politics to justify their position. The first one says that the Indians correspond to what Aristotle understood as slaves by nature. Although Sepúlveda was not in favor of slavery, he considered that it was legitimate to submit them by force to civilize them and dispose them to receive the Christian doctrine. Spaniards, on their behalf, corresponded, according to him, to the Aristotelian model of the masters by nature. Las Casas, on the other hand, seeks to destroy both assumptions. In the case of the indians, he shows that they have virtues that Aristotle attributes to free men, and that they participate in the experience of the polis, thing that manifests itself by the characteristics of their cities, that Las Casas seeks to exalt to achieve a similarity to the Aristotelian model. On the other hand, the bad habits and behavior of the conquerors do not correspond to the ones that a master by nature should have, with which he ends up dismantling the intellectual construction of his contradictor.

Palavras-chave : Bartolomé de Las Casas; Ginés de Sepúlveda; indian rights; conquest of America; cities; slavery.

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