The Virtue Ethic Difference in the Just War Discourse of James Turner Johnson and Catholic Social Teaching
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12663094 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elise Mccarthy (0000-0002-0511-8839, corresponding author), Eli McCarthy (Georgetown University 37th and O Streets, N.W. Washington DC 20057 USA) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 275-304 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1462-317X • E-ISSN: 1743-1719 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/poth.v12i2.275 |
| OpenAlex | W1996058046 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
In this article, I investigate how incorporating virtue ethics into the process of interpreting and responding to conflict re-shapes the understanding and application of just war theory. More specifically, I analyze James Turner Johnson's idea of just war and the implications of Thomistic virtue ethics. My argument in this article is that Johnson's rule-based idea of just war theory lacks the more integrated virtue ethic, which we find in Thomas and in the re-appropriation of Thomistic virtue ethics in contemporary Catholic Social Teaching's discourse on just war. This contributes to Johnson's idea of just war being inconsistent with the direction of contemporary Catholic Social Teaching on just war theory, particularly regarding the presumption against war. His lack of a virtue ethic also contributes to an inadequate understanding, development, and application of basic just war criteria, particularly from a Catholic perspective
Appropriation · Argument (complex analysis · Catholic social teaching · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Presumption · Sociology · Virtue · Virtue ethics · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |