POL SCI 118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jus Gentium, De Re Publica, Divine Law
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St. augustine - the city of god: writing about how people people were leaving rome for the south due to persecution for practicing christian relgions. Wars are just when it is for revenge from injury and the opposition has not made compensation, or to get back what was injuriously taken: basic principles. Wars are divided into just and the unjust. It is always licit to meet force with force. No war is just unless it is defensive. Defence may mean not only defence of onself but of allies and friends. A just war allows the victor as the offended party the. Marcus tullius cicero right to demand compensation from the defeated: de republica on the laws. Since all peoples have reason all must share the same laws and. Civil human or positive law (ius civile: rule of law of war. War is only permissible and just if natural law of man is being affected.
