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to mystic institute.org. We are going to be getting in this talk to more of the

thinking through or at least kind of mentioning some contemporary, more contemporary

examples largely drawn from the U.S. and thinking about presidential decisions this afternoon,

Father Aquinas is going to get us more specifically to the issue of Truman's decision to drop,

to use the atomic bomb. And so really thinking of a concrete. But I am a philosopher,

and so with philosophers, the rubber almost never hits the road. We're going to come pretty close, but it's always going to be like in the last session,

I hesitant to form a judgment on a particular thing.

When it comes to principles, I'm pretty confident about that,

even though some of these do get a little bit challenging to think about.

So, okay, what we're going to do is

let's jump in and now make sure I get my timer started to this part on your handout,

the just war principles. And there's not universal agreement about which principles there

are. There's definitely some disagreements, even within, you know,

people committed to a Christian and a Catholic analysis. I think this is a very helpful one

from Christopher Toner, who is a professor at, I think, University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.

He doesn't seem to be working much on just war currently, but this is an

article that he wrote that I think does a good job of organizing how do these principles

fit together. So you'll notice on the left is use ad balaam, the principles for being right

in going to war. On the right-hand side is use in bailo.

What is necessary to conduct the war rightly?

And what he does is he organizes this into five different questions

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