The Least of My Brethren: Domingo de Soto on Poverty and PropertyEnglish | 2026 | ISBN: 1049801342 | 226 pages | True PDF,EPUB | 3.77 MB
As pauperism and begging dramatically increased throughout Europe in the sixteenth century, poverty began to be treated as the object of governmental regulation rather than of individual benevolence. The new approach - which has been viewed as the early glimmering of the modern welfare state - aroused much controversy. This book presents translations of Domingo de Soto's intervention in the controversy (In Causa Pauperum Deliberatio), as well as of his treatments of poverty and property in his magisterial De Iustitia et Iure and elsewhere.