01:790:324 Lecture 1: CausesOfWarMidterm
10 Aug 2016
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When it"s right to go to war and how to fight a war. The content of war theory and 6 war theory criteria. He really provided the first systematic attempt to codify ideas about just war theory into a single coherent set of propositions to evaluate the conduct of war. He divided just war theory into 2 component parts : 1. Jus ad bellum (cid:0) refers to this idea of the justice of war; whether or not the decision to go to war is right or wrong from a moral point of view: 2. Jus in bello (cid:0) refers to justice in war. Jus ad bellum (cid:0: proper authority war had to have a proper authority war had to be sanctioned by the representatives of god on earth (in aquinas" day, it was the. Japan"s attack on the us in wwii (cid:0) act of aggression towards the us; japan started the war against.
