Francisco de Vitoria: Just War as Defense of International Law

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. From Just War to Modern Peace Ethics: An Introduction 1
4. Cicero: Just War in Classical Antiquity 9
5. Augustine’s Theology of Peace and the Beginning of Christian Just War Theory 31
6. Augustine: Peace Ethics and Peace Policy 49
7. Thomas Aquinas and Humanitarian Intervention 71
8. Forerunners of Humanitarian Intervention? From Canon Law to Francisco de Vitoria 99
9. Francisco de Vitoria: Just War as Defense of International Law 121
10. Martin Luther on Peace and War: A Systematic Approach 137
11. Morality and Just War According to Francisco Suárez 155
12. Suárez, Aquinas, and the Just War: Self Defense or Punishment? 175
13. Hugo Grotius: Just War Thinking Between Theology and International Law 197
14. Kant’s Cosmopolitanism: Resource for Shaping a “Just Peace” 217
15. Kant and the Just War Tradition 231
16. The Holy See as International Person and Sovereign and Participant in International Law 249
17. From an Ethics of War to an Ethics of Peacebuilding 275
18. The Peace Ethics of Pope John Paul II 313
19. List of Authors 345
20. Index of Names 347