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war theory there are sub categories and justifications jus ad bellum there are nine basic premises of just war that augustine posits within jus ad bellum just cause comparative justice right intention competent authority last resort public declaration reasonable probability of success proportionality and peace as the ultimate objective mattox 45 59 through the successful argumentation of each premise a state can morally justify entering in to war jus in bello once a country has entered into war that country must maintain a standard of conduct while nine basic premises satisfy the state s ability to enter in to war augustine posits three basic jus in bello premises proportionality discrimination and good faith these three premises are necessary to maintain a morality during war mattox 60 5 augustine potential problems and background the most difficult problem in solidifying augustine s theory of just cause is obscurity augustine never presented an absolutely systematic treatise of just cause for war this however does not show that augustine did not have a theory in mind maddox argues that although when viewed separately his just war statements may appear fragmentary when woven together they constitute a remarkable tapestry upon careful inspection of that tapestry one cannot but be struck by the unity that is readily apparent in his just war thought the consistency evident in his expression of these varied but related ideas leads fairly to the assumption that augustine s just war statements arise from a consistent set of premises which guide him to his conclusions in other words they reveal the presence of an underlying if unstated theory maddox 5 there is therefore no doubt concerning augustine s intended meaning however the task of examining augustine s theory when it is scattered throughout his written record is a difficult one augustine was not the first to propose a theory of just war in the western world in fact plato had already argued that the state must be prepared for violent struggle in a disorderly world and he assigned specific wartime roles to the citizens and the state even socrates argued that greek civilians and non combatants were not targets of war and that the vanquished should not be brought into slavery mattox 1 to help better understand his theory it is important to examine two primary influences on augustine s justwar philosophy cicero and ambrose cicero s just cause and proportionality in his confessions augustine claimed that cicero s hortensius turned him away from his sinful life towards a life of god and philosophy it gave augustine a different purpose and desire augustine 58 9 cicero was one of the first philosophers to distinguish between jus ad bellum and jus in bello principles of war however while cicero posits the same three premises of jus in bello as augustine cicero only addresses five premises for jus ad bellum just cause comparative justice right intention public declaration and last resort and peace as the ultimate objective the importance of cicero s influence on augustine however comes primarily with his argument concerning just cause in the face of realism cicero boldly asserted an idealistic proposition that a war is never undertaken by the ideal state except in defense of its honor or its safety de re publica iii xxiii cicero s statement argues maddox preserved by augustine reveals much of importance about cicero s most fundamental views on war there is no other premise that binds augustine more securely to cicero than this one maddox 15 in addition to his influence on augustine s theory of just cause cicero made another bold statement concerning the jus in bello premise of proportionality so bold in fact that it is just as revolutionary in our own day cicero argued that there are certain duties that we owe even to those who have wronged us for there is a limit to retribution and to punishment or rather i am inclined to think it is sufficient that the aggressor should be brought to repent of his wrong doing in order that he may not repeat the offence and that others may be deterred from doing wrong de officiis i xi cicero s argument for jus in bello proportionality has certainly made its mark on history as augustine clearly adopted this argument as his own ambrose while cicero affected augustine by the written word ambrose augustine s bishop in milan affected augustine by example it was ambrose who baptized augustine and who helped him acquire an appreciation of the interiority of the gospel precepts a notion that will later figure so prominently in augustine s own just war theory specifically and will pervade his theology in general in terms of laying the philosophical groundwork for augustine s treatment of just war theory ambrose represents an advance beyond cicero inasmuch as ambrose considers just war in the context of christianity maddox 19 augustine s influence on the christian conceptual understanding of just war is directly attributable to ambrose it was ambrose who instilled in augustine the belief that rome and the catholic church stood side by side perhaps even as the same entity to bring to pass the salvation of man russell 715 a view that augustine would later reject when he witnessed the fall of rome although augustine rejected the idea that rome stood hand in hand with the catholic church for the salvation of man he later argued for the possibility of a christian state mattox 29 30 augustine s absolute influence on just war came from this mixture of cicero s rational secularism and ambrose religious doctrines there had never before been such a philosophical marriage in the context of just war interestingly enough among the works we have of ambrose the only jus ad bellum justifications he gives are just cause and peace as the ultimate objective for war however traces of augustine s three premises jus in bello are found in pieces throughout ambrose theology the development of augustine s theory of justice war and peace augustine lived in a very peculiar time whereas cicero lived in a prosperous rome augustine was witness to rome s fall whereas cicero saw rome expand through military conquest augustine saw rome give way to the vandals various differences separated augustine from cicero and these differences mixed with augustine s life changing encounter with christianity gave way to differing interpretations of justice to augustine justice is love serving god only and therefore ruling well all else of the morals of the catholic church xv 25 npnf iv this reflected augustine s notion that justice is also giving every man his due mattox 25 having a working knowledge of justice augustine advances an interesting theory concerning war itself for augustine war is inevitable because god created all things ex nihilo matter formed out of nothing for war to even exist god had either initially ordained war or god had willfully given man his agency to wage war himself maddox 32 after all god uses war to punish the wicked those who do not follow god as augustine argues god can decide either to afflict or console mankind so that some wars come to an end more speedily others more slowly city of god v 22 216 217 it is important to note that augustine s concept of jus in bellum originated during a time when the roman military was busy suppressing political uprisings as the roman army fought to restrain dissent augustine witnessed the need for rules of conduct during wartime once augustine presents a theory of justice and war he moves towards the discussion of peace after all war requires an end and for augustine the just war is always fought to secure peace augustine gives no evidence that he believes that mankind will naturally triumph over its fallen disposition which fallen disposition may be a cause in man starting war to begin with yet the hearts of man must turn from the havoc of disruption and lawless pleasures confessions ii i to find a peaceable rest with god confessions i i mattox interprets augustine as saying that as long as man s fallen nature remains even this divine help will not enable humans entirely to overcome the opposition between spirit and body the tension that typifies war is merely the social counterpart to the spirit body tension that typifies every individual person mattox 38 augustine and just war the influence that augustine still wields over the just war theory is evident in augustine s premises for jus ad bellum and jus in bello all of these premises are still used today to discuss just war before proceeding we will briefly examine the most popular of these categories jus ad bellum augustine like cicero argues that paramount to all jus ad bellum premises is just cause just cause for augustine has several positive and several negative aspects for instance augustine argues that material compensation for property unjustly taken or destroyed mattox 46 constitutes a just cause for war however augustine negatively defines just cause through emotional responses that negate this premise love of violence lust for power revenge cruelty or wild resistance mattox 47 the concept of comparative justice is not heavily discussed by augustine and right intention is nearly treated as an arm of just cause augustine argues that a rightly intended war is waged by the good in order that by bringing under the yoke the unbridled lusts of men those vices might be abolished which ought under a just government to be either extirpated or suppressed letter 138 14 no rogue citizen is justified in declaring a war on his neighbor nor is any social leader justified in waging armed conflict against another faction of society augustine argues that a competent authority is necessary although the state cannot force a person to act in opposition to his will in answer to letters of petilian the donatist bishop of cirta 2 98 224 the goal of competent authority is to seek for peace as the ultimate objective for war as augustine wrote god to whom the secrets of the heart of man are open knoweth that it is because of my love for christian peace that i am so deeply moved by the profaned deeds of those who basely and impiously persevere in dissenting from it he knoweth also that this feeling of mine is one tending towards peace and that my desire is not that any one should against his will be coerced into the catholic communion but that all who are in error of the truth may be openly declared and being by god s help clearly exhibited through my ministry may so commend itself as to make them embrace and follow it letter 34 1 npnf i 262 augustine appears to adhere to the concept expressed by william godwin that if he who employs coercion against me could mold me to his purposes by argument no doubt he would he pretends to punish me because his argument is strong but he really punishes me because he is weak kraut 205 the competent authority must strive for peace and reason and he must not seek to use force to convert people jus in bello in studying augustine s theory of jus in bello principles an interesting pattern emerges augustine writes more concerning jus ad bellum than jus in bello however there is a sense that augustine does not find it necessary to explicate every specific instance wherein each individual should already have a moral sense of right and wrong in war maddox picks up on this theme and quotes tolstoy a father who exhorts his son to live honestly never to wrong any person and to give all that he has to others would not find it necessary expressly to forbid his son to kill people on the highway tolstoy 101 it appears to a certain degree that augustine takes man s inner morality for granted as he accepts that men should already have a sense of decency in the case that such moral certainty requires explication augustine posits three premises for jus in bello proportionality discrimination and good faith the premise of proportionality is built on the most basic of human feelings respect and love of one s neighbor given all the atrocities associated with war in accordance it seems with the jus ad bellum premise of peace as the ultimate end the state and individual must contemplate upon the evils of war with sorrow otherwise the hardened individual has lost all human feeling city of god xix 7 544 augustine argues let necessity therefore and not your will slay the enemy who fights against you letter 189 6 npnf i 554 augustine s second jus in bello premise discrimination is as contemporary today as when he first expressed his theory today differentiating between non combatants and religious clerics during a time of war is a highly promoted aspect of just war under the premise of discrimination augustine also finds a moral justification for a soldier who is commanded to kill augustine claims that when a soldier kills a man in obedience to the legitimate authority under which he served he is not chargeable with murder by the laws of his country in fact he is chargeable with insubordination and mutiny if he refuses thus he is punished if he did it without orders for the same reason that he will be punished if he refused when ordered on free choice of the will iv 25 9 finally augustine argues for good faith can an army use deception on the battlefield to gain advantage in the war augustine answers affirmatively mattox points out that augustine used scripture to justify good faith since god commanded joshua to ambush his enemy and take control of the city of ai augustine is confident in this theory maddox 64 this teaches us that such things are legitimate for those who are engaged in a just war in these matters the only thing a righteous man has to worry about is that the just war is waged by someone who has the right to do so because not all men have that right once an individual has undertaken this kind of war it does not matter at all as far as justice is concerned whether he wins victory in open combat or through ruses questions on the heptateuch 6 10 augustine today a modern adaptation the influence that augustine has had on the modern interpretation of just war theory is undeniable a quick look at the most common interpretations of just war includes nearly ever premise for which augustine argued in a world that is experiencing democratization faster than ever before there are certainly expected modifications to augustine s theory in just cause for war a well known article concerning just war theory jeff mcmahan borrows and amends many of augustine s original ideas interesting enough through all the changes and amendments to just war theory the premise of just cause has remained consistent mcmahan argues alongside augustine to show that the recovery of goods lost to prior aggression is indeed a just cause for war in a move that amends augustine mcmahan evaluates the current social pressures of today s world to construct a new theory of just war mcmahan includes the following premises in his just war theory humanitarian intervention prevention of future aggression just war as a t...