Domingo de Soto

Libri decem de iustitia & iure

Domingo de Soto (1494 – November 15, 1560) was a Dominican priest and Scholastic theologian born in Segovia, Spain, and died in Salamanca at the age of 66. He is best known as one of the major figures of the philosophical movement known as the School of Salamanca.

Trained in Alcalá, Spain, and Paris, France, before being made professor of Philosophy at Alcalá in 1520, he left academia to join the Dominicans and returned to take the chair of theology at Salamanca University in 1532. He is best known in economic theory and theological circles for his writings defending the price differential in usury as compatible with "just price" from the perspective of the Thomists.

He held powerful positions including Confessor of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the emperor's representative at the Council of Trent.

In the 20th century, Pierre Duhem credited him with important achievements in dynamics and viewed his work as a forerunner of modern mechanics.

Works

• Summulae, 1529.
• De ratione tegendi et detegendi secretum, 1541
• In dialecticam Aristotelis commentarii, 1544
• In VIII libros physicorum, 1545
• Deliberacion en la causa de los pobres, 1545
• De natura et gratia libri III, 1547
• Comment. in Ep. ad Romanos, 1550
• De justitia et jure, 1553.
• In IV sent. libros comment. 1555-6.
• De justitia et jure libri X, 1556

References

• History of Economic Thought "Salamanca School"