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SUMMARY:The Western just war tradition\, the ethics of collateral damage\,
  and Thomas Aquinas's opposition to killing the innocent - Daniel H. Weiss
 \, Polonsky-Coexist Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies in the Faculty of Di
 vinity
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CONTACT:Dr Arthur Dudney
DESCRIPTION:Many scholars today view the causing the death of innocent civ
 ilians in warfare as an established part of historical Western tradition o
 f just war\, so long as those deaths are 'merely foreseen\, but not direct
 ly intended'.  This attitude towards 'collateral damage' or 'double effect
 ' is often traced back to Thomas Aquinas.  However\, I argue that\, contra
 ry to received scholarly assumptions\, Aquinas in fact sharply rejects the
  legitimacy of such forms of killing.  Accordingly\, premodern Western tho
 ught regarding just war may stand in a much sharper discontinuity with mod
 ern just war ethics than has previously been recognized\, with significant
  potential implications for contemporary public debates and ethical dilemm
 as.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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