Published 1992
by Basil Blackwell in Oxford .
Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | edited by Jean Bethke Elshtain. |
| Series | Readings in social and political theory |
| Contributions | Elshtain, Jean Bethke, 1941- |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | U21.2 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | viii,336p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 336 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL15098273M |
| ISBN 10 | 0631172777, 0631172785 |
Just War is a concept that governs the conditions under which a war can be waged and how it can be waged. Increasingly, it also handles the post-war issues of legal claims about war crimes committed previously. The theory of Just War is known in variant forms since antiquity and several versions exist within both religious and philosophical. The one big drawback here is that Regan fails to weave Just War theory and development into part two. Instead we are given a brief historical look at the wars in question. The reader would be better served if the author had shown how the Just War theory related to the action. What, for instance, did church leaders and others say at the time?Cited by: Just War Theory has a long history in the western intellectual tradition. St. Augustine commented on the morality of war from a Christian perspective, as did several Arabic commentators from the 9th to the 12th centuries. But St. Thomas Aquinas provided the most celebrated and still discussed the main outlines of just war theory.. Just War Theory traditionally has two sets of criteria. However, just war theory also acts to remind contenders that war is a last resort and that its essential aim is always peace, so if peace is forthcoming in any guise, it is morally critical for all parties to seek a return to a permanent peace rather than a momentary lapse of war. 5. Conclusion.
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Our war, the Vietnam War, was not just for many reasons. First of all, there was not a just cause or reason for the United States (us) to get involved in the war. The only reason we went to war with the North Vietnamese was to prevent Communism from spreading to South Vietnam, which wouldn't have affected our country. The theoretical aspect of military ethics concerned with morally justifying war and the forms that warfare may or may not take is called just war theory. The history of just war thought and its application to specific wars is referred to as the just war tradition. The Christian just war tradition is therefore the history of how just war theory. Thirty years ago, Walzer published Just and Unjust Wars, a seminal text on how we think about war and the moral issues surrounding military theory, war crimes, and the spoils of war. His other books include Arguing About War () and On Toleration (). So, at the beginning of the process, it seemed best to focus on some very basic questions: the very idea of “Catholic international relations theory”; the current state of the just war debate in the Church; and the nature, prospects and limits of international law.
