Natural Law as a Language for the Ethics of War
To assess the utility of appeals to natural law as a way of projecting ethical claims across ideological and cultural boundaries, three examples of such appeals in just war theory are critically analyzed and evaluated: those of contemporary international lawyers Myres McDougal and Florentino Felicia...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1975
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 1975, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 217-242 |
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| Summary: | To assess the utility of appeals to natural law as a way of projecting ethical claims across ideological and cultural boundaries, three examples of such appeals in just war theory are critically analyzed and evaluated: those of contemporary international lawyers Myres McDougal and Florentino Feliciano, theological ethicist Paul Ramsey, and Franciscus de Victoria, a sixteenth-century Spanish theorist whose recasting of Christian just war thought gave rise to secular international law. The conclusion is that natural-law appeals today can no longer depend on their own self-evidence, but must be attempts to uncover commonality as to what is natural. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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