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The just war tradition

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an ancient and living body of thinking that tries to describe if a war is morally permissible.

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Fragment

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When someone else quotes you

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Bellum omnium contra omnes (translation)

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war of all against all

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Bellum omnium contra omnes (concept)

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in the state of nature we see a war against all and peace is earned in surrendering one’s ability to wage war

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War of all against all

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bellum omnium contra omnes

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realism

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the position that war is hell

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master morality

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creates its own values and stands beyond good and evil

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slave morality

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values kindness, humility, and sympathy.

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moral reality to war

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that we can and in fact must bring it under a level of moral judgment

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conventionalism

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the position that moral law is founded through general agreement

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regular

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following the rules

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pacifists

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always believe that war is wrong

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selective pacifists

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these people believe that war may be just, but Christians may never take part in these affairs

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How did Cicero define war?

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contending by force

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bellum iustum

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just war

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duellum

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private

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bellum

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public

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private

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duellum

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public

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bellum

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right strictly considered

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the moral faculty granted by laws strictly considered

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A just war

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a war fought with and by right

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license

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a right to do as one pleases without any restriction

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ius ad bellum

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right to go to war, just cause

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right to go to war, just cause

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ius ad bellum

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ius in bello
right within war, limited sufficient means
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right within war, limited sufficient means
ius in bello
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ius ad pacem
right toward peace, just intent to seek justice/peace
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right toward peace, just intent to seek justice/peace
ius ad pacem
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dialogues
philosophical genre in which two or more people discuss some philosophical topic, sometimes with no resolution
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tripartite psychology
soul is divided to 3 parts
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What are the 3 parts of the soul in the tripartitle psychology?
- appetitive - spirited - logical
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Allegory
a story that explains a philosophical point.
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socratic dialectic
- debate between experts certain in their knowledge and someone trying to seek the truth - truth is found through demonstrating contradictions
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triumvirate
Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus
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proscribe
to be banned or killed from the state
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Philippics
Cicero wrote this to get the Senate to proscribe Marc Anthony as an enemy of the state
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academic skepticism
the impossibility of obtaining certain knowledge
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St. Jerome
translated the Bible to Latin
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natural law
body of unchanging and universal moral concepts
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zoon politikon
Aristotle says that humanity is a political animal
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fides
honor and honesty
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fetials
Roman priests who represented Rome diplomatically
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magnanimitas
The desire for independence manifest, have a great soul
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megalopsychia
greatness of soul
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Octavian
became Augustus Caesar, Cicero praises him over Anthony
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hostis
Cicero's etymology of the word enemy
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Anteclassical
not from the classical era
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Perduellis
ante-classical Latin word for enemy
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Marcus Aurelius
Emperor, stoic philosopher and warrior
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Commodus
Son of Aurelius, co-emperor, weak-souled and intemperate, murderous, loved gladiator combat
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lex talinois
eye for eye, tooth for tooth
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Ganymede
Trojan boy of Zeus
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apologist
defender to explain
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ascetic
giving stuff up
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Montanism
Followers of Montanus, believed in continuing ecstatic prophesy.
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chaplet
crown worn by the soldiers
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crown worn by the soldiers
de corona militis
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berber
indigenous person from North Africa
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Latin Church Father
there were four of them, all had large influence on Church
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apocatastasis
the belief that all sinners would be saved by a remaking of the world at the apocalypse rather than damnation at a final judgment
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Celsus
Pagan Greek philosopher, argued against Christianity as an unpatriotic.
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Constantine
tutor of the unfortunate Crispus
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Edict of Milan
legalized Christianity in Roman Empire
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Edict of Thessalonia
institutionalized Nicaean Christianity in empire
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Nicene Creed
Christian creed from first council of Nicaea
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Arianism
the denial of the Trinity, Christ is not one being with the Father
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realpolitik
to not consider ideals, but concrete affairs, a state needs laws with punitive sanctions and force
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Machiean
dual way of thinking, two worlds, one world of light and goodness ruled by good God, and world of evil and darkness ruled by bad God
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Earthly city
most people belong, Follow lust and desire to dominate others, ultimately damned
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City of God
the elect belong to this, pilgrims and foreigners in the earthly city
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predestination
all future events regarding one's soul have been willed by God
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double predestination
God will choose some to be saved, but also creates some people who will be damned.
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soteriology
the doctrine of salvation
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providence
that God arranged the world in the best possible manner
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Privation
evil, anything that is not God lacks some good
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salvation history
seeks to understand the personal redemptive activity of God within human history
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wicked
moral evil
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revenge
giving like for like
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peace
being well-ordered
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irrational soul
requires peace, order among appetites
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rational soul
requires peace, order among knowledge and actions
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polymus
Greek for war
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Greek for war
polymus

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