Abstract

GIRALDO RAMIREZ, Jorge. Rawls, his Just War Theory. Co-herencia [online]. 2008, vol.5, n.8, pp.39-64. ISSN 1794-5887.

This article tries to reconstruct the normative approach of John Rawls about the war, from his conceptions of a non-ideal theory of justice and law of peoples. The reconstruction includes the criteria to wage and conduct the war, and the debate about some usual attitudes to face it. Here is remarkable that Rawls accept the tradition of just war theory and, specially, his way to insert it in a moral and historical situation of extreme limitation of war.

Keywords : War; John Rawls; justice of war; law of peoples; ius in bello; ius ad bello.

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