buckeyenole said:

Correct. I had two classes dealing with this topic at FSU in the '80's.

BrianNole's statement that the just war tradition (not theory) had "nothing to do with religion" was 100% incorrect.

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GeddyLee09 said:

It's not based on religion now, but its origins are based on religion. Before the separation of church and state who would authorize and justify wars? Not just kings and generals but also popes and clerics.

Just War Theory | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Although St. Augustine provided comments on the morality of war from the Christian perspective (railing against the love of violence that war can engender) as did several Arabic commentators in the intellectual flourishing from the 9th to 12th centuries, but the most systematic exposition in the Western tradition and one that still attracts attention was outlined by Saint Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century. In the Summa Theologicae, Aquinas presents the general outline of what becomes the traditional just war theory as discussed in modern universities. He discusses not only the justification of war but also the kinds of activity that are permissible (for a Christian) in war (see below). Aquinas’s thoughts become the model for later Scholastics and Jurists to expand and to gradually to universalize beyond Christendom – notably, for instance, in relations with the peoples of America following European incursions into the continent.

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GeddyLee09 said:

Is there any info on what happened and who was involved?

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