Is There a “Presumption Against War” In Aquinas’s Ethics?

Reichberg, Gregory M.

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“…Though traditional just-war theorists well understood the interplay of certain virtues in a nation's rise and fall, modern just-war discourse meanwhile have relinquished these earlier roots (Vorster, 2015, p. 56). For instance, medieval just-war concept justified some war in order to deter a cause more harmful than war itself (Reichberg, 2002), (Vorster, 2015). Although medieval just-war tradition esteemed internal dispositions like "virtue and right intention as important criteria for war ethics, modern just-war discourse rarely addresses issues of character" (Vorster, 2015, p. 55).…”

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Utilitarianism: Greatst Impediment to Justice

Haokip

2022

J. Adv. Res. Soc. Sci.

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This paper evaluates the validity of the foundational ethical conception of Justice and its contesting contradictory conception, Utilitarianism in framing the institutional structure of a nation. Thereby the paper asserts the importance of Justice and certain virtues to a nation’s rise and fall and observes greatest impediment of Justice in the idea of Utilitarianism. While Utilitarianism advances its own conception of Justice, based on critical-theoretical approach the article advances three-fold arguments in order to reprove Utilitarianism of its claim. Utilitarianism is not a viable form of Justice since the theory represents a form of egoism, is structurally inconsistent to sound ethical doctrine, and because it has dissolved the end and means dichotomy.

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Utilitarianism: Greatst Impediment to Justice

Haokip

2022

J. Adv. Res. Soc. Sci.

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“…For an overview see Reichberg . In its most recent permutation the debate has been framed in terms of the contrast between “just war” and “just peace”; see Morkevicius .…”

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Reframing the Catholic Understanding of Just War: Two Contrasting Approaches in the Interwar Period

Reichberg¹

2018

Journal of Religious Ethics

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During the inter war period, European Catholic authors exhibited two different approaches to the question of just war. One approach was articulated at the “Fribourg Conventus,” a 1931 meeting of French, Swiss, and German theologians, whose subsequent declaration (Conventus de bello, published in 1932) called for a reformulation of Catholic teaching based on the premise that the traditional just‐war doctrine had been superseded by developments in international law. A competing approach was articulated by the Dutch Jesuit Robert Regout, who maintained that the just‐war doctrine could contribute to the formation of international law by providing a much‐needed normative foundation for the use of armed force by individual states in redress of their violated rights. After presenting these two approaches and explaining how they differ, this essay shows how the outlook of the Conventus de bello is reflected in subsequent papal statements on armed force—to the detriment of the traditional terminology of just war.

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“…Several thinkers have argued, contrary to Johnson's reading, that Aquinas did have a strong presumption against war (Bellamy , 38; Miller ). Gregory Reichberg () and Scott Davis (, 162–74), meanwhile, give convincing readings of Aquinas suggesting that Johnson has the better of this particular debate.…”

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Tradition, Authority, and Immanent Critique in Comparative Ethics

Kellison¹

2014

Journal of Religious Ethics

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Drawing on resources from pragmatist thought allows religious ethicists to take account of the central role traditions play in the formation and development of moral concepts without thereby espousing moral relativism or becoming traditionalists. After giving an account of this understanding of the concept of tradition, I examine the ways in which understandings of tradition play out in two contemporary examples of tradition‐based ethics: works in comparative ethics of war by James Turner Johnson and John Kelsay. I argue that a pragmatist approach to tradition‐based ethics allows for a nuanced and flexible understanding of moral traditions, and one that holds great promise for international consensus‐building around shared ethical norms for the use of armed force.

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Is There a “Presumption Against War” In Aquinas’s Ethics?

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

Utilitarianism: Greatst Impediment to Justice

Utilitarianism: Greatst Impediment to Justice

Reframing the Catholic Understanding of Just War: Two Contrasting Approaches in the Interwar Period

Tradition, Authority, and Immanent Critique in Comparative Ethics

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