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Joseph E. Capizzi

Joseph Capizzi is Ordinary Professor of Moral Theology, and Executive Director of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Politics, Justice, and War: Christian Governance and the Ethics of Warfare (Oxford University, 2015).

Hiroshima and the “Easy” Thing to Do

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The just war ethic cannot justify the intentional killing of some innocents for the sake of defending the lives of other innocents because the lives of the innocent are the actual point of war. We go to war on behalf of the innocent men and women wronged by some act against their nation. We fight that war by the morality able to name that wrong as a wrong, and able to express that wrong by the means employed in its vindication.
Common Good

Bullish on the Common Good?

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The common good is the final cause of political association, not least because practical decisions are always decisions about achieving what is good and avoiding what is bad. But invoking the common good under the influence of De Koninck, Maritain, or even Aquinas doesn’t on its own advance the political conversation that characterizes a healthy polity.
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