Legitimate Authority: Aquinas’s First Requirement of a Just War

Peer-reviewed Journal Article

Reichberg, Gregory M. (2012) Legitimate Authority: Aquinas’s First Requirement of a Just War, The Thomist 76(3): 337–369.

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In the opening respondeo of his “Question on War” (Summa Theologiae II-II, q. 40, a. 1) Thomas Aquinas famously writes that a war will be just only when it is conducted under the authority of a prince, for a just cause, and with an upright intention. In what follows I examine the first of these three conditions.

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