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Just-war theory. Its origin and evolution in history
Daniška, Jaroslav ; Kučera, Rudolf (advisor) ; Müller, Ivan (referee)
Diploma thesis covers the old Christian tradition of just-war theory. This tradition, fully-established hence Augustine justifies and limits war. Having origins in a Hebrew thought and Old Testament, just-war theory has grown up from works of Augustine trough Gratian, Thomas Aquinas and Spanish scholastics to play a major role in establishing of international law as a specific field of science in a modern age. In this work I focused on primary texts of Bible, both Old and New Testament, writings of Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, Koran, as well as review of influential secondary literature, especially written by James Turner Johnson, George Weigel, historians like Edward Gibbon, Paul Johnson, Thomas E. Woods, thinkers like Roberto de Mattei or Michael Novak and documents like Documents of Vatican II., Catechism of the Catholic Church and others. Catholicism developed rich body of thought and numerous theories, attitudes on the moral problem of war and peace. Tradition of just-war thinking offers improving argumentation on morally responsible use of armed force, in both defensive and offensive wars. Just-war tradition offers criteria and their moral evaluation of just cause, just intention and legitimate authority and diploma thesis adds their confrontation with jihad's "holy-war" in Islam, humanitarian...
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