Just war and virtue: revisiting Augustine and Thomas Aquinas

Vorster, Nico

doi:10.1080/02580136.2015.1010135

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“…Instead, they recommend war in pursuance of what is right. According to Grotius, war is permissible when "good faith"-honest and sincere intention is maintained (Grotius, 2006) (Vorster, 2015). Proportional standard, on the other hand, requires that war be fought in a manner that represents a proportional response to the wrong to be avenged (Alexander, 2020).…”

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“…The principle is also concerned with right resort to force and therefore asserts proportionality of the means used in achieving a goal (Vorster, 2015) (Seth, 2017).…”

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“…2.1.2 Compromise of "proportionality principle" and "right intention" criterion MJWT fails to observe proportionality principle on account of moral indifference (Solomon, 1996) (Vorster, 2015). Further, it is noted that jus in bello compromise of proportionality is rooted in the neglect of jus ad bellum right intention.…”

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“…Although traditionalists' strand of thinking highly regarded subjective elements such as virtue and right intention as important criteria for war ethics, modern just-war (MJW) discourse rarely addresses issues of character and, therefore, virtuous practices of warfare. For right intention criterion, the subjective element of JW came to be compromised in contemporary just-war (CJW) discourse when MJW discourse considers the Augustinian condition of "just cause" and "authority" as an adequate criterion over "right intention" (Vorster, 2015). Thus, while traditional JW considers containment of violence within military limits necessary (Alexander, 2020), MJWT justified and legitimized spillage or collateral damage of non-combatants in the idea of double-effect.…”

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“…Spillage in war is immoral, unnecessary, unlawful, and avoidable (Vorster, 2015) (May 2007). According to Aquinas, "an act may not be intended, yet be regarded as unlawful when proper care is not taken to remove obstacles that might cause unintended injuries" (McDermott, 1997, p. 390).…”

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Jus Post Bellum: Justice at the End of War

Haokip¹

2021

Proceedings of ‏The 3rd International Academic Conference on Research in Social Sciences

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Post bellum justice considers vindication of human rights and prosecution on occasion of its violation essential to establish just-peace at the end of war. An inquiry into the interrelationship between justice in the commencement, during, and at the end of war reveals the centrality of human rights and just peace. Conversely, jus post bellum's failure is associated with discrepancies in jus ad bellum and jus in bello conditions of just -war. The study, therefore, observes an intricate relationship between the three principles of just-war. This correlation is further stressed on the importance of jus ad bellum criteria of right-intention and proportionality principle of jus in bello to rightly administer judgment for crimes committed during war. To complement the already existing laws of warfare, the paper distinguished crimes based on intention into presumptuous, not-presumptuous, and un-presumptuous. Thus, all three conditions of just-war synergistically work together to justify a just-war claim for right resort to force.

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“…The principle is also concerned with right resort to force and therefore asserts proportionality of the means used in achieving a goal (Vorster, 2015) (Seth, 2017).…”

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Jus Post Bellum: Justice at the End of War

Haokip¹

2021

Proceedings of ‏The 3rd International Academic Conference on Research in Social Sciences

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Intricate Link Between War and Human Nature

Haokip

2022

Eur. J. Behav. Sci.

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The paper explores crucial but often neglected aspects that contribute to the causes of war. While just war requires just causes and just practices in warfare and for that reason asserts the importance of right intention, the paper observes not only the neglect of this criterion but also the predomination of wrong intention like hatred, fear, greed, and lust in the ethics of warfare. The paper's engagement with the subversive side of human nature affirms an intricate link between human nature and war. It does so by examining the infiltration of the internal orientation in the writings of Thomas Hobbes, Aron Ralby, Sigmund Freud, St. Augustine, and Edmund Husserl. Crises in internal orientation thus inadvertently contribute to the causes of war.

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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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Just war and virtue: revisiting Augustine and Thomas Aquinas

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

Jus Post Bellum: Justice at the End of War

Jus Post Bellum: Justice at the End of War

Intricate Link Between War and Human Nature

Utilitarianism: Greatst Impediment to Justice

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