Abstract

The encounter between the Spanish-Lusitanian kingdoms and the indigenous peoples of America is a turning point in the history of human rights. If, on the one hand, violence and brutality were deep-rooted outcomes of the conquest and colonization of America, on the other hand, it is also in this context that radical otherness is faced. This article aims to approach how the Iberian School of Peace – built in a solid collection of sources accessible to the Christian Medieval-Renaissance world, tempered by the missionary experience in direct contact with the Peoples of the New World – establishes the foundations for what we named in this article as a pluralistic jusnaturalism. Through this latter we will argue that it is possible to indorse a sort of situated universalism, as one of the vital legacies of the Iberian School of Peace for the contemporary human rights.