Bartolomé De Las Casas
Between Faith and Guilt
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Barbarism, Metaphysic Guilt, Ethics, FaithAbstract
The following writing aims to demonstrate that, within the descriptions in Very Brief Report of the destruction of the Indies, guilt is conceived on the part of the fragile, which is why in his writing he intends to make an omission of the same. To do this, we try to demonstrate that De las Casas' thinking entails an ethical determination not to evade his responsibility for barbaric acts. This implies giving an important character to the relationship as a witness and “accomplice” of the particularities that are related in their writings. In this way, the present text is divided into three parts. The first will link the relationship between ethics and faith as a motive to reject violent acts. In the second, the opposition of De las Casas to the existence of cults opposed to moral good, together with the relationship of the body as a way of exclusion towards the other through dehumanization and the third, the dilemma of metaphysical guilt, in which De las Casas has a responsibility for not avoiding barbaric situations.
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