morally good. St. Thomas Aquinas had different criteria for the war and its justified

means. His reasons were as follows: self-defense, peaceful means failed, triumph,

proportionality, and the double effect.

In a just war, self-defense plays a big role. Self-defense is an act when you try

and protect yourself when being attacked. If there is self-defense in a war that already

tells us that the war is unjust. For someone to protect themselves this means that the war

was an unexpected or quick attack. Force may not be used to acquire control over

understanding but can establish new means of peace than those that preceded the war.

Also, St. Thomas Aquinas states that self-defense should only be preformed for the good

Most people who wage for war want, in return, peace and so they are not

opposed to peace except for evil peace. St. Thomas Aquinas states: “we do not seek

peace in order to be at war, but we go to war that we may have peace. Be peaceful,

therefore, in warring, so that you may vanquish those whom you are against, and bring

them to the prosperity of peace.” This doesn’t

since it was an accident and not intended. If a person goes to war to fight for their

negotiations and other means of peace creation, then a war is just.

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