Inequality in Machiavelli's The Prince, More's Utopia, and Las Casas' Account of the Destruction of the Indies

It is one that encouraged a person to rule others or to dominate others. If you judge yourself the right to freedom or enslavement, superiority or inferiority, civilization or barbarity, the result of history will be terrible. The actions imposed are not familiar to ours who have been treated with privilege and left scars forever. Ironically, people are suffering from a potential quality relationship as a human being, in other words our human nature.

In 1552, Las Casas announced "a brief explanation of the destruction of the Indian islands". This book was written ten years ago and attracted the attention of Philip II who was Prince of Spain at the time. This included some of the abuses Spaniards committed against Native Americans in the early stages of colonization. In 1555, the opponent of his old Franciscan Toribio de Benavente Motolinia wrote a letter explaining Las Casas as an ignorant and arrogant trouble maker. Benavente angrily said that Las Casas denied the old Indian baptism that passed through many leagues to accept it, as he simply did not believe that this person accepted adequate doctrinal instructions. This letter rekindled the old confrontation about the sacrament of baptism between the two orders, designed to unpopular Las Casas. But it did not succeed

BartolomédelasCasas is a Spanish historian and social reformer who wrote during the occupation of Spain in the 16 th century. In a brief explanation of the "destruction of the Indian archipelago," Casas strictly commented on the cruel behavior of Hispaniola of Spanish settlers against indigenous peoples and explained the purpose of the act. This explanation is not only observation of colonists' practices but also reflection of the policies of the Spanish empire. By writing a brief description of the destruction of the Indian islands, Casas aims to concentrate the attention of the Spanish royal family to the atrocities made by imperial citizens to local people. In order to achieve this goal he used a rhetorical device designed to arouse reader's sympathy for local people and to make them afraid of how to handle them.

A brief explanation of the destruction of the Indian islands (Spanish: BrevísimarelacióndeladestruccióndelasIndias) was written in 1542 about the abuse of colonial Americans (Sevilla issued in 1552) and sent them to Spain's Prince Philip II in Spain . . One of the purposes of the writing account is that Las Casas is concerned about Spanish sacred punishment and his concern for indigenous souls. This description was the first attempt by Spanish colonial writers to describe the unjust treatment of Spanish indigenous peoples to conquer the Great Antilles, especially in the early stages of Hispaniola. As Rauscasus's view pointed out, as explained, it can be explained that it is serious against some of the Spanish colonization methods that brought about a great loss to the island's indigenous people.