Concept

Just war theory

Overview

doctrine about when a war is ethically just

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Just war theory

• Francisco de Vitoria
• Robert L. Holmes
• Panaetius
• Samuel von Pufendorf
• Augustine of Hippo
• Thomas Aquinas
• Alexander of Hales
• Michael Walzer
• Ted Honderich
• Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda
• Frances Kamm
• Brian Orend
• David S. Oderberg
• Nick Fotion

Related ideas

• Erasmus
• Anarcho-capitalism
• Francisco de Vitoria
• Francisco Suárez
• Vladimir Lenin
• Robert L. Holmes
• Hinduism
• Philosophy
• Ambrose
• Etymologiae
• Isidore of Seville
• Panaetius
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Politics (Aristotle)
• Livy
• Middle Ages
• Spanish Civil War
• Doctrine
• Stoicism
• BBC
• Catechism of the Catholic Church
• Mahabharata
• John Finnis
• Murray Rothbard

Opposing perspectives

• Alexis de Tocqueville

Place in the tradition

Part of American philosophy.

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