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Francisco de Vitoria  

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  • Francisco de Vitoria was the leading figure in the School of Salamanca, which revived scholastic theology and the natural law philosophy of Thomas Aquinas in sixteenth-century Spain. Like Aquinas, Vitoria entered the Dominican order at a young age and studied at the University of Paris. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Vitoria, Francisco de (1485–1546)]

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