Domingo de Soto was a Dominican priest and theologian born 1494, Segovia, Spain. He died in 1560 in Salamanca. He is best known as one of the major figures of the philosophical movement known as the School of Salamanca, together with Francisco de Vitoria.

Trained in Alcala, Spain and Paris, France before being made professor of theology at Salamanca University in 1532, he is best known in economic theory and theological circles for his writings defending the price differential in usury as compatible with "just price" from the perspective of the Thomists.

He held powerful positions including Confessor of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the emperor's representative at the Council of Trent. Recently, he has been credited by Pierre Duhem with important achievements in dynamics (Etudes sur Léonard de Vinci, t. 3, Hermann, 1913) and is viewed as a forerunner of modern mechanics.

Works

• Summulae, 1529.
• De ratione tegendi et detegendi secretum, 1541
• In dialecticam Aristotelis commentarii, 1544
• In VIII libros physicorum, 1545
• De natura et gratia libri III, 1547
• Comment. in Ep. ad Romanos, 1550
• De justitia et jure, 1553.
• In IV sent. libros comment. 1555-6.
• De justitia et jure libri X, 1556

References

• Biography in the BBKL
• History of Economic Thought "Salamanca School"

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