Just-War Debate
Just-war theory focuses on two issues: the justice of the decision to wage war and the justice of war conduct. About the war decision, just-war theorists require that decision makers h...
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Just War
The term just war refers to the major moral tradition of Western culture that deals with the justification and limitation of the use of force by public authority. Just war tradition has parti...
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Just War Theory
In traditional just war theory there are two basic elements: an account of just cause and an account of just means. Just cause is usually specified as follows:
(1) There must be subst...
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It is difficult to say that a Just war exists. This depends on how we and people around us view the concept of war in general. If we compare the conservationists and the abolitionist's view of war whi...
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Old editions of the Yale Songbook included a German drinking song called "The Pope." This was its first stanza: "The Pope, he leads a jolly life / He's free from every care and strife. / He drinks ...
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On the evening of Monday, Sept. 17, Bank of America and PBS hosted a preview of Ken Burns’ new documentary The War, about how World War II affected American lives. After the screen...
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War In Iraq: It's quite likely that, as you read this, U.S. troops under the leadership of Gen. David Petraeus are winning the war against terrorism in Iraq. And no, it isn't just war-crazed neocon...
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Sullivan is once again horrified by reports of widespread American torture, this time from Amnesty International.
Whatever else this administration has done, whatever other mistakes it has made, ...
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President Bush, denounced by tens of thousands of anti-American protesters on the streets of Rome, defended his humanitarian record on Saturday to Pope Benedict XVI, who expressed concern about "th...
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Everything went wrong during Bill Colby's biggest mission in World War II. Colby and a team from the Office of Strategic Services -- a forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency -- had jumped in...
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Do You Hear What I Hear? Religious Calling, the Priesthood, and My Father, by Minna Proctor. Viking, 288 pages, $25.95.Minna Proctor's father was a Midwestern intellectual, a professor of music liv...
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Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America, by Chris Hedges. Free Press, 224 pages, $24.Losing Moses on the Freeway falls flat as the meditation on the American soul it pretends to...
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Just-War Debate
Just War
Just War Theory
A Just War. Does It Really Exists?
As John Paul Fades Away, His Revolution Continues
