Tulejski Tomasz, Paulus Vladimiri and His Forgotten Concept of the Just War

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Paulus Vladimiri and His Forgotten Concept of the Just War

1.Introduction

The theoretical reflection formulated in the neo-scholastic School of Salamanca has been regarded as the source of the contemporary concept of international relations: going beyond the paradigm of the time – determined, on the one hand, by the idea of the holy war and, on the other, by the doctrine of the just war – the Salamanca scholars laid down foundations for the edifice of modern international law . Their reflection was heavily influenced by the circumstances that Europeans faced in the 15th and 16th centuries. Firstly, the discovery of America made the white colonizers come into contact with the indigenous peoples of the New World, which resulted in a need for a unified doctrinal position towards them. Secondly, as a result of the Reformation, the Medieval Christianitas, previously united in acknowledging the universal authority of the Pope and the Emperor, disintegrated and split into fiercely opposed factions.

These new circumstances made the Spanish thinkers refer to ius...

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