Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace

Informationen zum Autor Gregory M. Reichberg is Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). He has coedited several volumes, including Religion, War and Ethics: A Sourcebook of Textual Traditions (Cambridge, 2014), and Ethics of War: Classical and Contemporary Readings (2006). His recent publications include 'The Decision to Use Military Force in Classical Just War Thinking' in the Ashgate Research Companion on Military Ethics (2015), 'Historiography of Just War Theory' in the Oxford Handbook of War and Ethics (2016), and 'Jacques Maritain, Christian Just War Theorist' in the Journal of Military Ethics (2016). Klappentext The first book-length study of Aquinas's teaching on just war! its antecedents! and its reception by subsequent thinkers. Zusammenfassung There exists a burgeoning literature on the idea of just war! but little is known about the origination of this idea in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. This book fills that lacuna by showing how the medieval thinker set his treatment of war and peace within a comprehensive philosophical/religious outlook. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Just War in Aquinas's Typology of the Virtues: 1. Just war among the Quaestiones on charity; 2. War's permissibility; 3. Interpreting the gospel 'Precepts of Patience'; 4. Military prudence; 5. Battlefield courage; Part II. Selected Topics: 6. Legitimate authority; 7. War and punishment; 8. Self-defense; 9. Preventive war; 10. The moral equality of combatants; Epilogue: 11. St Thomas and the doctrine of bellum iustum today.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Reichberg, Gregory M. Reichberg, Gregory M. (Peace Research Institute Os Reichberg, Reichberg Gregory M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.2016
• EAN: 9781107019904
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01990-4
• No. of pages: 326
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Peace studies & conflict resolution