Gregory M. Reichberg

Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace

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Produktbeschreibung

The first book-length study of Aquinas's teaching on just war, its antecedents, and its reception by subsequent thinkers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781108730167
• ISBN-10: 1108730167
• Artikelnr.: 54641645

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.