Domingo de Soto was a Dominican

Dominican Order

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 priest and Scholastic

Scholasticism

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 theologian born in Segovia

Segovia

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, Spain, and died in Salamanca

Salamanca

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 at the age of 66. He is best known as one of the major figures of the philosophical movement known as the School of Salamanca

School of Salamanca

The School of Salamanca is the renaissance of thought in diverse intellectual areas by Spanish and Portuguese theologians, rooted in the intellectual and pedagogical work of Francisco de Vitoria...

, together with Francisco de Vitoria

Francisco de Vitoria

Francisco de Vitoria, OP was a Spanish Renaissance Roman Catholic philosopher, theologian and jurist, founder of the tradition in philosophy known as the School of Salamanca, noted especially for his contributions to the theory of just war and international law...

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Trained in Alcalá

University of Alcalá

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, Spain, and Paris, France, before being made professor of Philosophy at Alcalá in 1520, he left academia to join the Dominicans and returned to take the chair of theology at Salamanca University in 1532. He is best known in economic theory and theological circles for his writings defending the price differential in usury as compatible with "just price" from the perspective of the Thomists.

He held powerful positions including Confessor of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

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 and the emperor's representative at the Council of Trent

Council of Trent

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In the 20th century, Pierre Duhem

Pierre Duhem

Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem was a French physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science, best known for his writings on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria and on scientific development in the Middle Ages...

credited him with important achievements in dynamics and also viewed him as a forerunner of modern mechanics.

Works

• Summulae, 1529.
• De ratione tegendi et detegendi secretum, 1541
• In dialecticam Aristotelis commentarii, 1544
• In VIII libros physicorum, 1545
• Deliberacion en la causa de los pobres, 1545
• De natura et gratia libri III, 1547
• Comment. in Ep. ad Romanos, 1550
• De justitia et jure, 1553.
• In IV sent. libros comment. 1555-6.
• De justitia et jure libri X, 1556