Whereas «The Challenge of Peace» offered an extensive discussion of conscientious citizen objection to unjust uses of government power, Pavlischek instead emphasized the role of just
war theory in statecraft and military planning.
In this article Childress formulated just
war theory in terms of the logic of prima facie duties as defined by the philosopher W. D. Ross.
Not exact matches
It could
in theory be bankrolled by China or Russia, but those countries no longer share the powerful ideological interests that drew them into the Korean
War on Pyongyang's side.
«How do you lend against a house that should
in theory be $ 1 million, but someone overpaid
in a bidding
war at $ 1.4 million, and they want a loan for 75 per cent of the value?»
In the 1930s, the rise of Nazi Germany and the threat of
war provided a stimulus for scientists on both sides of the conflict to turn Albert Einstein's famous E = MC2
theory into a destructive reality.
There are any number of
theories explaining the sudden drop
in crude oil prices after two years of stability: America's increasing supply, the world's faltering demand, an undeclared price
war being waged by Saudi Arabia, the rising U.S. dollar.
For those who don't often discuss characterization and story world over dinner, Weinschenk's post kicks off with a great primer on storytelling
theory, explaining the basics of Campbell's thinking (famously exemplified by the journey of Star
Wars» Luke Skywalker), as well as the roughly bell - shaped story diagram every writer learns
in her first class on structure.
With man thinking the world was flat (scientist of the times
theory, I might add) and doctors believing you could bleed someone out to save them
in the civil
war times.
What is really fascinating is the
theory that the Hebrew and Muslim deity figure derive from a
war god
in an ancient Semitic pantheon whose association with the other gods was lost
in the confusion that time and oral tradition bring.
If just -
war theory is
in poor repute today it is because it has been pressed into service to justify
war rather than to prevent or restrain it; rather than being used to advance the cause of peace or justice, the
theory has often provided a quickly accessible patina of moral justifiability to disguise aggression and expansionist policy.
This means
in theory that stringent conditions must be met before the church can sanction a
war.
The Great Compression - the substantial reduction
in inequality during the New Deal and the Second World
War - also seems hard to understand
in terms of the usual
theories.
Writing
in the Journal of Religious Ethics, they make clear enough, as it used to be said, where they are coming from: «Just
war theory is properly understood as an expression of a tradition
in Christian political thought that can broadly be described as Augustinian.
In his letter Bryce Sibley suggests that this requires me to reject not just the death penalty but just -
war theory as well.
The distinguished sociologist of the University of Virginia and author of the acclaimed Culture
Wars here undertakes a close examination of what,
in theory and practice, «moral education» means
in most American schools.
In his classic text, Peace and
Wars A
Theory of International Relations, Raymond Aron confirms that
It is a powerful body of philosophical
theory that has fought nobly
in the philosophical
wars of the past two centuries.
The collapse of sacred order
in Europe during the World
Wars left many of Europe's surviving Jewish intellectuals to stake their
theory and practice on the future of the United States and Israel.
Although Whitehead seems to reject the Marxist idea of the class
war (AI 35), he knew that society built on iniquity resulted either
in its self - destruction or a correction built on the insertion of some new
theory into the social structure (AI 14).
Although held
in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World
War II.9 The idea was taught
in the schools,
in the army, and resulted finally
in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation
in the world, the United States.
theory and actions of Radical Feminists who choose separation from the Dissociated State of patriarchy
in order to release the flow of elemental energy and Gynophilic communication; radical withdrawal of energy from
warring patriarchy and transferal of this energy to women's Selves.
One might say that just as nuclear
war has made of the whole planet a potential battlefield, thus raising new questions about
war itself, so, too, has modern advertising made of the whole planet an actual constant marketplace, thus provoking radical changes
in the practice and
theory of human intercourse.
The Leninist
Theory,
in which the blame for
war is put upon a structure, a system, or a «Machine,» rejects the corollary shared by pacifisms 1 and 2 that insists upon the cultivation of personal peacefulness.
Because of the cultural changes of modernity, however, the just
war tradition has been carried, developed, and applied not as a single cultural consensus but as distinct streams
in Catholic canon law and theology, Protestant religious thought, secular philosophy, international law, military
theory and practice, and the experience of statecraft.
For this reason one can not be truly Catholic without respecting and seeking to understand the record of the tradition, and one can not have a genuinely Catholic contemporary understanding of just
war without a grasp of the Church's normative tradition on just
war and its place
in the
theory of statecraft and international order.
A systematic just
war theory came only some time later, beginning with Gratian's Decretum
in the middle of the twelfth century, maturing through the work of two generations of successors, the Decretists and the Decretalists, and taking theological form
in the work of Thomas Aquinas and others
in the latter part of the thirteenth century.
The first three correspond to the three requisites found
in classic just
war tradition for a just resort to armed force — requisites we have seen through the lens of Aquinas» just
war theory.
Third, the context has shifted:
in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means of achieving real if limited justice for human life
in the world, and a corresponding
theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on
war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined
in terms of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.
The Challenge of Peace, without reference to the logic of prima facie duties, replicates the structure of Childress» argument exactly: just
war theory begins with a presumption against
war, and the just
war criteria function to override this presumption (or to show that it should not be overridden)
in particular cases.
I have been engaged
in developing another paradigm for the ethics of peace and
war besides that of pacifism and just
war theory — just peacemaking.
The intense debate
in the United States since September 11 about the meaning, history, and contemporary applicability of just
war theory» much of it conducted
in the pages of First Things» has been instructive and for the most part at a high level of conceptual and ethical sophistication.
In the herein God orders conduct that is clearly condemned by the proponents of the just
war theory, let alone by those who believe that Jesus taught nonviolence.
I come from this position from both having served
in the military and considered «just
war theory» at masters level.
In the end, competing perceptions of our national moral virtue lie at the heart of the division between soft and hard just
war theory.
Ron Mock suggests that I confuse justice and order
in my rendering of just
war theory.
The American Christian debate about just
war theory is
in a sense nothing other than a debate about America's role
in the world, a debate little changed since, say, 1968.
Hard just
war theory reverses these emphases, replacing them with the following: a presumption against injustice and disorder rather than against
war; an assumption that
war is tragic but inevitable
in a fallen world and that
war is a necessary task of government; a tendency to trust the U.S. government and its claims of need for military action; an emphasis on just
war theory as a tool to aid policymakers and military personnel
in their decisions; an inclination to distrust the efficacy of international treaties and to downplay the value of international actors and perspectives; a less stringent or differently oriented application of some just
war criteria; and no sense of common ground with Christian pacifists.
The deeper reality is that there are two different kinds of just
war theories, rooted
in theoretical differences and especially
in different assessments of American behavior: there is «soft» just
war theory and «hard» just
war theory.
The 20th - century development of just
war theory is clearly an evolution of the historic tradition
in response to the carnage of the era.
But a chorus of dissatisfaction with just
war theory is gaining strength
in the U.S., and not just from pacifists and others who dissent from the tradition on principle.
In response, he called for rigorous retrieval of «classic» just
war theory.
More than thirty years after that letter, Ramsey's achievements included pioneering work
in medical ethics and an almost singlehanded (at least among Protestants) renewal of just
war theory.
As provisions of the just -
war theory passed into the developing corpus of international law
in the 17th century, they retained their categorical or absolutist character.
The absolutist conception of justice was reflected
in the medieval
theory of the just
war.
August 2011 — The Air Force stops teaching the Just
War theory to officers
in California because the course is taught by chaplains and is based on a philosophy introduced by St. Augustine
in the third century AD — a
theory long - taught by civilized nations across the world (except America).
In such a perspective the just -
war theory of Augustine and the sexual restrictions of the Roman Catholic Church are equally unpersuasive, and, indeed, are themselves immoral!
Dana Robert,
in her 1994 article «From Missions to Mission to Beyond Missions: The Historiography of American Protestant Foreign Missions since World
War II,» laments that the historical study of Protestant mission
theory tends «not to be grounded
in study of actual mission practice.
But then Charles Darwin wrote about something called the
Theory of Evolution, which challenged the long - held Christian belief that the world was created by God
in six days, and the
war between the dual revelations flared back up.
The precise
theory may be traced back to Dr John Money (1921 - 2006), a New Zealand psychologist who worked
in the United States after the Second World
War.
Furthermore, the radical changes that the nuclear age has brought to the phenomenon of
war make it impossible to weigh means against ends
in the way required by just -
war theory.