Professor Francisco Blanco Conference (brief)

The celebration of the 500th anniversary of the first diocese in the mainland of America and the South Sea discovery this year marked the life of Panama.

The theme of the South Sea discovery is controversial. Out of this controversy, the event affected the lives of Panama.

It opens a way for much larger dimensions.

Focusing on is experience can understand the phenomenon of globalization.

The fact of the discovery brought consequences for the world.

The church from the beginning has innovated and transformed life in the minds of people.

Faith was embraced by the rule among the evangelists and the constant questioning of the natural population of this earth about its existence and its new reality.

It creates a new culture and a new way of living. New cities and new realities, which reflect a new mindset. The work of the missionaries, often under-recognized, open new opportunities for the application of new thinking.

Mention was made of the Renaissance and the influence of the thought of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, medieval philosophy illuminating.

Universities were born in the bosom of the church collect and magnify this thought.

The school of Salamanca framework, without coming to america, thought and social change in the new world.

This school begins a journey that no prior research had. Especially in the ethical and positive law. For example, the right to property and common law in the light of natural law.

One of the main issues was whether the Indian was a person, which threw down the concept of slavery and the different category of people.

In the legal field, the great contribution of the School of Salamanca is to enforce the concept of freedom. The concept of free will and that all men are equal. Also the concept of human dignity. This was known as the law of nations.

The conflict of the war just fu also questioned. Like the denial of property rights and freedom that corresponded to the natural inhabitants were called barbarians.

On many occasions it was the confrontation between the conqueror and the missionaries, because of the defense that were of indigenous missionaries.

He cited the experience of peace vera and the aftertaste still remember the name of the departments of the high and low will see peace in Guatemala.

The action of the church to denounce the mistreatment of indigenous death earned him many missionaries. Some of them considered martyrs of america.

All this makes clear that the school of Salamanca opened new fields in the thinking of economics, law and theology against medieval thought, which certainly change the thinking of the time and certainly still in the development fishtail our own thinking.