ARTICLE: Matthias LUTZ-BACHMANN, "Die Transformation des Konzepts des »gerechten Kriegs« (»bellum iustum«) in der Geschichte der Philosophie: Von Thomas von Aquin bis zur Schule von Salamanca" (Archiv des Völkerrechts LXII (2024), Nr. 2, 211-234)

 

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Abstract:

The article is first dealing with the very specific arguments of the doctrine of »Just War« in the »Summa theologiae« II-II, q. 40 of Thomas Aquinas. It refers second to the process of a massive transformation by which authors of the so-called »School of Salamanca« in early modern times like Vitoria, Cano or Suárez modified the original »Just War«-theory of Aquinas. And it reflects finally upon the relevance and meaning of these transformations for the systematic discussion of classical »Just-War«-theory today, that means in a time after Kant's »theory of peace« on the one hand and the constitution of the UN-Charter on the other by which the legitimacy of war is limited just to cases of a self-defense of states.

On the author:

Born 1952; director of the "Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften" at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

Read more here: DOI 10.1628/avr-2024-0011.