just war theory; thomas aquinas; George Weigel George Weigel is the distinguished senior fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington.

Fairness should guide international relations, prioritising human-centric approaches over military action and finding ...

Explore the complexities of Just War Theory through the lens of the Iraq War. ... the 13th-century Italian philosopher Thomas Aquinas really set the stage for Just War Theory as we know it.

I was rushing past the treasures of the Louvre in Paris, on the way to the “Mona Lisa,” when a painting stopped me in my ...

In the Christian tradition war ethics were developed by St Augustine, and later by St Thomas Aquinas and others. ... wrote down the conditions for a just war that are accepted today.

The Just War theory specifies conditions for judging if it is just to go to war, ... like Plato and Cicero and were added to by Christian theologians like Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.

Just war theory is a venerable Christian tradition.It is the philosophical basis of international and American laws of war and undeniably noble in its intent. But it’s also deeply flawed, and ...

The philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas is highly systematic, profound, mystical and elaborate, and was recorded in the 13th century. In a word, it is “formidable.” And yet, Aquinas is the master ...

A just war is permissible because it's a lesser evil, ... Greek and Roman philosophers like Plato and Cicero and were added to by Christian theologians like Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.

They worked in the 15th century, as tensions between Christian and Muslim kingdoms were boiling over into war, from Spain and Italy to Constantinople. ‘St. Thomas Aquinas Confounding Averroës ...

As a Catholic philosopher and avid student of Aquinas, I am always fielding questions about whether this medieval saint is "still worth" reading today, nearly 800 years after his birth.