Just War Theory..........

St. Augustine's accomplishments are key to understanding his philosophy. One of his accomplishments was when he developed a doctrine of "Just War". This was of course his Just war theory as we have been learning about in class. This theory makes righteous conflicts preformed in the name of peace
What does this mean?
this simply means that instead of just going to war for no reason (in the name of peace) one would have to provide a reason as to why they were going to war. And of course if the outcome of the war wasnt going to be peace then it was decided that no war would take place at all.

It was in the middle ages he presented this theory to many.
He believed that war WAS A SIN but he did not deny the fact that war was also of course inevitable as has been proven throught time. Therefore in his mind the only justification to war was if the outcome would be peace.

The principles of Just war include..........
1) War can only take place if all the other non violent options have been tried.
2) An authoritive figure must declare war for it to be just
3) Obviously a war can only take place if there is a chance of success otherwise all the killing and so on would be for nothing. Also the killing and injurying of other during the war is morally justified.
4) A just war must be fought for the correct intentions. It could be fought to "re-adress a wrong suffered"
5) The goal of the war would of course have to be to establish peace...no surprise here
6) a minimum amount of force must be used
7) You cant attack any civilians....they are not the targets....that would be messsssed up