Just War Definition

“So, the violence is not simply a matter of retaliating against those who perpetuate evil (though such revenge can be sweet), it is a matter of serving a greater divine purpose. Ultimately that divine purpose makes the use of violence a moral (because commanded-implicitly of explicitly-by God) action.” (Bain-Selbo pg. 74)

The word "war" has a clearly association with horror, devastation and injustice. It is hardly to find greater antonyms than "war" and "justice". After all, the law which is inseparable from the justice is understandable as civilized communication and background for nonviolent conflict solving process. On the other hand, the war is also the way to solve conflicts, but in a different way, using the suffering and the price of life.

Finally war kill lots of people. One example is “I think we ought to bomb the daylights out of them, as long as we don’t hit any women or children or old people, don’t you?… ‘Or hospitals,’ he went on.’And naturally no schools. Or churches.’ ‘We must also be careful about works of art,’... Mr. Patch-Withers grumbled, with a flushed face. ‘How do you expect our boys to be as precise as that thousands of feet up with bombs weighing tons!” (Pg 10 chp.1)In war innocent people will die and you can't do anything about it.

Thomas Paine, a leader of his country would push himself go to war for peace for kids. Including the kids’ parents also pursuit the war to get peace for their children. Thomas Paine portrays in his pamphlet “Crisis No. 1” Paine noticed at first, King George of England was accused that he had been stealing from the innocent citizens of England. Paine was fed up with King George’s excuses, and decided to write and published the pamphlet, mainly to get rid of the king, because he a regular person like everyone else with only a little power. Thomas Paine comes side by side with the persuasive technique of “Logos”, mostly because he explains to the whole town why we want he wants to get rid of the king which seems he had intentions

“I Have a Dream” is Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s extremely remarkable speech, even though he expressed many other encouraging and inspiring speeches. I chose the speech entitled “Loving Your Enemies”. Given on 17 November 1957 Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama for these reasons. Firstly, it 's one of his many inspiring speeches that is even being brought up in society now. Furthermore, “Loving Your Enemies” is something that is immensely complex, however utterly possible and crucial for humankind to exist harmoniously in this corrupt life. Ultimately, another purpose I decided on this speech is, it 's a powerful motivational speech in my views and is immensely relatable in this cruel society currently.

A role of an individual in society can be played many ways, one of them being that people should fight for their country. This can be exhibited in "Speech to the Virginia Convention" by Patrick Henry ,where Henry believes his country should fight for freedom against the British. He is calling on the patriots of Virginia to arm themselves in order to be prepared to fight the British if they do not yield to some of their demands. The author encourages this message by their emotional appeals and literary devices. In the text, the author exposes the audience to prepare for war by conveying them to fight for their country.

Peace what does it mean? Some people say it means a war is over. But during World War 1 peace meant a different meaning. Some people ask what did president Woodrow mean by peace without victory? What is the treaty of Versailles? What did Germany lose by signing the treaty of Versailles? These are all questions that will be answered throughout this paper. I believe that peace doesn 't have to lead to war.

When talking about war, there are many books with few answers to what war truly is. Barbara Ehrenreich brings forth not only the possibilities towards understanding war but also the passion people from history have had towards it. One key issue she brings to light is humanities love for war, so much so that people would use excuses like holy wars to justify their need to fight in a war. She declares that war is as muddled as the issue of diseases and where diseases came from around 200 years ago. More so than that she even goes further on to state that these rituals that date back to prehistoric times are the cause of human nature during times of war rather than human instinct. Ehrenreich brings up the idea that war is human kinds natural high. She sails us down a road of self-doubt in humanity and makes society re-question the idea of antiwar acts all the

“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.” (Thomas A. Edison) Non-violence is always taking the high road, and that is the only way we will ever get anything done in this world. Killing people doesn’t get anything done. It doesn’t prove your point, it just hurts people and hurting people is not the answer. In Chavez’s work, he explains how peaceful protest and non-violence will always be the right answer.

In all of this, Augustine is not far from and is, in fact, probably drawing upon the ideas of Cicero and the author of Deuteronomy. He goes further than either of them, however, in his condemnation of war itself and in his refusal to allow that the aggressor may be just. For Augustine, war is never a good but only a lesser of evils, and the one who causes the war is always unjust.

The misfortune brought about by war often leads to contradiction, between morals and nationalism. Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried served as a soldier throughout the Vietnam war. Tim O’Brien was hesitant to fight and considered dodging the draft, or registering as a conscientious objector, through his novel and later experiences readers can begin to understand why. Reports of riots against the war, along with writings by dodge drafters as well as conscientious objectors help concrete why to and not to go to war as portrayed through Tim O'brien's The Things They Carried. The Vietnam War resulted in 58, 159 American casualties not including those wounded (Brenner xxii). Acts such as killing others went against the Bible, the war

Since the beginning of time, war has been practiced for numerous reasons ultimately to benefit a group of people or nations. But, when war divides the world into two different sides with the capability to destroy faster than we can create, it makes us question, is war really worth it? With the aftermath of World War One, people we’re still divided, but for a different reason, after a war with a catastrophic amount of deaths we had militarists advocating to fight and pacifists demanding peace. The two sources I have used from this essay comes from a European militarist, Friedrich Von Bernhardi with his book “War a Biological Necessity” and United States pacifists, William James, in his book “Moral Equivalent of War”. Therefore this essay will review the

In 1944, Harold S. Bender wrote the “The Anabaptist Vision”, which was to reassure the Anabaptists faith, especially during the era of war and poverty in World War II. Violence, hardship, and suffering was felt by the entire world and many people felt lost and restless. Bender encouraged people, particularly the Anabaptists and Mennonites, by retelling the history of the Anabaptist faith which was also full of hardships and suffering. Consequently, it was to explain the origin and reason behind the Anabaptist faith and to possibly remind the people of why they had chosen to become Anabaptists. Bender mentioned the following three distinct points to prove his argument: new conception of the essence of Christianity as discipleship, a new conception of the church as a brotherhood, and a new ethic of love and non-resistance (14).

During the Middle Ages, the Crusades were seen as "just" wars. In reality they were ethnocentric hate filled conquests that aimed to wipe the Arab race off the face of the earth. During the time they were just because they were for for the "glory of God," but in reality it wasn't a Holy war, it was a blood sport. That being said, in the modern era "just" wars are a necessity in this inherently unfair geopolitical landscape. The little guy has to be protected.

War is justified when there is a “just cause”, and when it is used as a “last resort”. In many cases however, there are corrupted individuals who only perceive that which just through their own eyes which is very subjective instead of looking from an objective perspective. So what is a “just cause”? It means to confront a real and certain danger, a cause that carries sufficient moral weight, or one that is to prevent something wrong or evil from happening. However, this