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Author: André Azevedo Alves

St Mary’s University – Honorary Professor of Political Science and Catholic Social Thought

André Azevedo Alves holds a PhD in Political Science from the London School of Economics, an MA in Political Science from the Catholic University of Portugal and a BA in Economics from the University of Porto. He has been the Director of the Research Centre of the Institute for Political Studies of the Catholic University of Portugal since 2013. Click here to view André’s full profile

Taxation in Catholic Scholastic Thought

This article forms part of Render unto Caesar a publication on taxation by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales

The late scholastics, universal human rights and discrimination

Rapidly developing events and protests springing from the United States to much of the Western world (and elsewhere) have once again brought discussion about individual rights and equality – both in theory and in practice – to the forefront of public debate.

The late scholastics and globalisation

While the understanding of Catholic social thought as a structured and articulated body of thought is relatively recent, its roots go back much further. The work of St. Thomas Aquinas is certainly pivotal in this regard (and merits its own analysis), but in several matters the first consistent reflection on applied global economic and social issues from a Catholic perspective ought to be credited to the late scholastics and particularly to the so-called School of Salamanca.