Innocent Civilians The Morality of Killing in

This work explains why the concern to minimize civilian casualties is solidly based in Western civilization's most fundamental principles of justice. The author interprets Augustine's just war theory, Vitoria and Suarez's "transitional" model of war, and offers explanation for the modern characterization of the combatant as a depersonalized instrument.

Colm McKeogh is lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

1

(18)

The right and the good

13

(1)

How absolute is the PNCI?

14

(3)

Aims of this book

17

(2)

Guilt and Punitive War 1

19

(18)

Augustine's justification of war

22

(10)

The `Peace of God

32

(5)

Guilt and Punitive War 2

37

(12)

Justification of war

38

(2)

Simultaneous just cause

40

(1)

The clerical ban

41

(1)

The combatant

42

(1)

Penance

42

(2)

Conclusion: punitive war and non-combatant immunity

44

(5)

Social Roles and Feudal War

49

(26)

Aquinas's justification of war

52

(2)

Aquinas's other justification of war

54

(2)

Simultaneous just cause

56

(1)

The combatant

57

(1)

Conscientious objection

58

(2)

The clerical ban

60

(2)

The non-combatant

62

(2)

The principle of double effect

64

(1)

The end of feudal war

65

(5)

Conclusion: feudal war and non-combatant immunity

70

(5)

Innocence and Modern War

75

(24)

Isidore of Seville

79

(1)

Vitoria's and Suarez's justification of war

80

(13)

Conclusion: innocence and non-combatant immunity

93

(6)

Non-combatancy and Formal War

99

(24)

Grotius's and Vattel's justification of war

104

(15)

Conclusion: formal war and non-combatant immunity

119

(4)

Involvement and Total War

123

(22)

The justification of total war

129

(11)

Conclusion: total war and non-combatant immunity

140

(5)

Conclusion

145

(30)

Just and unjust killing

149

(26)

Notes

175

(18)

Bibliography

193

(6)

Index

199

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