EL HUMANISMO CIVICO CASTELLANO: ALONSO DE MADRIGAL, PEDRO DE OSMA Y FERNANDO DE ROA

Authors

  • Cirilio Flórez Miguel

Keywords:

Civic humanism, republicanism, city, government, law, ethics, customs, civic virtue

Abstract

This article examines the «civic humanist» tradition in the context of the Aristotelian school of Salamanca, whose principal representatives are El Tostado and his disciples Pedro de Osma and Fernando de Roa. The study of Ciceron, and above all Aristotle, is decisive in reaching an understanding of these Castilian republicanism, begun in the second half of the 15th century. The article analyses the principal arguments of this civic humanism through the work of the three above-mentioned authors.