Abstract

RIVERA, Erika J.. Elements of Political Philosophy in the Colonial Age of Upper Peru: A Provisional Approach. Rev Cien Cult [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.34, pp.155-172. ISSN 2077-3323.

During the Spanish colonial age in Upper Peru (1537-1825) no works of specifically political philosophy could be detected. But in the universitary space and in the justice administration a combination of ideas coming from the Salamanca School and the Indian Laws reached a high theoretical value. The core of these doctrines claimed the equality of all human beings before God and their equal participation in similar rights, on the one side, and the legimity of the Spanish conquest of the New World, on the other side. In practical everyday's life these theoretical products had no consequences on the terrible forced labour imposed on Indians.

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