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You're listening to the Partially Examined Life, a podcast by some guys who at one point set on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it. Our question for episode 373 is when, if ever, is war justified? We read chapters 4 through 6 of Michael Walzer's book, Just and Unjust Wars, originally published in 1977.

This is Mark Linsonmeyer, whose international intervention is always welcome in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin, always the aggressor in Nantaskett, Massachusetts.

This is Wes All One, Justly Afraid in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey intervening to support self-determination in Madison, Wisconsin.

All right. Are you close together in Massachusetts? I don't understand the geography.

So, Sky is going to go to an overnight camp. It's near Springfield, which is in the center of the state. So we flew into Boston, but we don't drop her off for a couple days. And so we decided to spend a couple days here

on the coast around Boston. This is a little beach town, about 30 minutes, I guess, south. And then from

here, tomorrow, we're going to drive to central Massachusetts.

And as listeners can tell, your good mic did not go on vacation with you.

Yes, my good mic, because after we drop her off, we are flying to Portugal.

Well, we've been wanting to do something contemporary for a while.

There are wars going on.

Did you know?

Just war theory is the historical thing, and there's lots of good historical stuff,

Thomas Aquinas, Grotius, many Hugo Grotius, many people in history.

But apparently this fairly recent book, it was, again, written not too long, sort of in light of the Vietnam War, but then updated, we read the fourth edition 2006.

I'm not sure if he updated the content.

Do you guys know?

There's a new intro.

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