El pensamiento de Domingo Báñez y su valor en la historia del tomismo

Abstract

Domingo Báñez was one of the most outstanding Thomists who belonged to what is known as the ‘School of Salamanca’, a focus of authentic humanist and Christian culture that radiated throughout Western civilisation, especially in Spain and Iberoamerica. Recent studies, led by the French medievalist Étienne Gilson, confirm that the role of the Salamanca Dominican in the history of Thomism has had a more than notable weight. Opposing this position is the Italian philosopher Cornelio Fabro, who maintains, contrary to Gilson, that Báñez is responsible for the deviation of the main theses of the Thomistic philosophy of being. Be that as it may, his figure has become highly topical and valuable for researchers into the history of Thomism.