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1. Lol! I'm no expert but here's a good start:

Sun Apr 17, 2016, 03:34 PM

Apr 2016

http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl201/modules/Philosophers/Augustine/augustine_justwar.html

As the article points out, he talked about the right to go to war in the first place (jus ad bellum) and the moral conduct of a war, once started (jus in bello).

This might have been all well and good when the heaviest weapon of war was an elephant but, even as a philosophical exercise, it's time has long passed.

Aquinas reduced the morality of war to a syllogism, as he did everything. I'm glad his primary interest was not sex.

http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl201/modules/Philosophers/Augustine/augustine_justwar.html

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