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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Peace, War, and Philosophy
Speculation about war and peace as conditions of interstate relations has tended to divide thinkers into two groups—those who regard war as inevitable, perhaps even d...
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Peace, War, and Philosophy [addendum]
The nuclear threat that preoccupied Bertrand Russell receded into the background during the Vietnam War. After that war's end in 1975, the risk of a nuclea...
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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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Just-War Debate
Just War
Just War Theory
