Moral y política en el Siglo de Oro hispano: una visión a través de la tratadística jesuita

Abstract

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Society of Jesus had a lively participation in the controversy on the correct way to exercise government in its different forms. This intervention was not limited to purely theoretical works. Teachings of a political nature were also transmitted in moral works addressed to all members of the society. In this way, through the moral treatises and the mirrors for princes, it is possible to observe the Jesuit approach (individual and collective) to the government, its levels and spheres of action, the elements of state consolidation and the relationship between politics and the religion. The idea of the superiority of the spiritual over the temporal flies over all the works.

Keywords

• Spain
• early modern period
• Society of Jesus
• politics
• moral literature