Francisco Suárez e Antônio Vieira: atualizadores e continuadores da escola ibérica da paz

Abstract

Francisco Suarez and Priest Antônio Vieira are two brilliant authors, the first is responsible for building the bridge between medieval and Renaissance thought, the second influenced the Brazilian and international politics of his time from his practical humanism, both argue legally based on the scholastic tradition that constitutes the Iberian School of Peace. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that the argumentative assumptions contained in the tradition of the Iberian School of Peace are present in the core of the legal doctrine of both Suárez and Vieira in the first directly, and in the second in a more indirect and dissident way, as well as to highlight a certain Suarezian influence in Vieira's legal work. For this, the bibliographic method was used to analyze the De Legibus ac Deo Legislatore and the Defensio Fidei by Suárez and the Vote of Priest Antônio Vieira on the doubts of the residents of São Paulo about the administration of the Indians of Vieira. In the end, it is concluded that the two authors transmir legal postulates thar are common and convergent with the Iberian School of Peace, Francisco Suárez in a dissidente way, but with the typical conscience of a Luso-Brazilian scholastic.