Contemporary Papal Teaching on the Moral Problem of War | Dr. Gregory M. Reichberg

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🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This lecture was given on Jun 12th, 2024, at The Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speaker:

Gregory M. Reichberg is Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). He is a philosopher specializing in military ethics and is currently engaged in a multi-year project on the use of artificial intelligence in armed conflict. He also writes on linkages between religion, peace, and conflict. For the last eight years he has led the Research School on Peace and Conflict, an academic consortium for doctoral students. From 2009-12 he was director of the PRIO Cyprus Centre in Nicosia, where he coordinated research and dialogue activities on the search for a political settlement to the island's division. Over the last fifteen years he has been engaged in religious dialogue on social/political issues in Iraq and other settings. Reichberg is a consultor to the Dicastery for Integral Human Development (appointed by Pope Francis in 2020).

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0:25.0	So the topic for this session is the doctrinal status of just war
0:32.9	in the contemporary teaching of the Catholic Magisterium.
0:36.8	Now, right off the bat, I think it's essential to recognize that there hasn't been a
0:45.6	continuous teaching on just war within the Catholic Church.
0:50.9	It's not as though we started with Augustine Aqu, Augustine and Aquinas, and then we have
0:55.8	Victoria and Suarez, you know, and Cajutan and others. And that just, you know, and that was,
1:02.0	you just, you know, was a continuous point of reference up until today. In fact, it's the
1:08.4	contrary that's been the case. If you look at writings relating to, you know,
1:14.0	more broadly war in ethics around, well, in the 1930s, you'll find that there's, in fact,
1:21.8	very few references to just war. And at that time, there were quite a few Catholic thinkers who thought that the
1:29.5	just war doctrine was obsolete. I mentioned Luigi Sturzo, who wrote an entire book on this
1:38.0	topic, and he has, within the book, trying to remember the title exactly. I just wrote
1:42.1	an article on it. I can't remember the title of the book, but I think it's international law or international order and the right of war.
1:52.2	So he argues that the just war idea is obsolete under conditions of international order, where states come together to sort out their
2:03.6	decisions, their disputes in a consensual way. In 19, around 1931, there was a French priest
2:15.6	who made some statements in favor of pacifism.
2:20.3	And then he came under heavy criticism by, I think it was a Dominican actually, named Stateman.
2:27.3	And then he came under rather heavy criticism.
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