Gratian and Mengzi: Pioneer Works in the Christian and Confucian Just War Traditions
In this essay, I compare two pioneer thinkers of the “just war” tradition across cultures: Gratian in the Christian tradition, and Mengzi (Mencius) in the Confucian tradition. I examine their historical-cultural contexts and the need for both to discuss just war, introduce the nature of their treati...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
Journals Online & Print: | |
Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
Published: |
Wiley-Blackwell
[2020]
|
In: |
Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2020, Volume: 48, Issue: 4, Pages: 689-729 |
Further subjects: | B
Canon Law
B presumption against war B Mengzi (Mencius) B presumption against injustice B Gratian B Just War B Virtue Ethics |
Online Access: |
Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |
MARC
LEADER | 00000naa a22000002 4500 | ||
---|---|---|---|
001 | 1744708134 | ||
003 | DE-627 | ||
005 | 20210114161256.0 | ||
007 | cr uuu---uuuuu | ||
008 | 210114s2020 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c | ||
024 | 7 | |a 10.1111/jore.12329 |2 doi | |
035 | |a (DE-627)1744708134 | ||
035 | |a (DE-599)KXP1744708134 | ||
040 | |a DE-627 |b ger |c DE-627 |e rda | ||
041 | |a eng | ||
084 | |a 0 |2 ssgn | ||
100 | 1 | |e VerfasserIn |0 (DE-588)1033700622 |0 (DE-627)742467384 |0 (DE-576)381410501 |4 aut |a Lo, Ping-cheung | |
109 | |a Lo, Ping-cheung |a Lo, P. C. |a Ping-cheung Lo |a Luo, Bingxiang |a Luo Bingxiang |a Luo Bing xiang | ||
245 | 1 | 0 | |a Gratian and Mengzi |b Pioneer Works in the Christian and Confucian Just War Traditions |
264 | 1 | |c [2020] | |
336 | |a Text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
337 | |a Computermedien |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
338 | |a Online-Ressource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
520 | |a In this essay, I compare two pioneer thinkers of the “just war” tradition across cultures: Gratian in the Christian tradition, and Mengzi (Mencius) in the Confucian tradition. I examine their historical-cultural contexts and the need for both to discuss just war, introduce the nature of their treatises and the rudimentary theories of just war therein, and trace the influence both thinkers’ theories have had on subsequent just war ethics. Both deemed just cause, proper authority, and right intention to be necessary conditions for initiating a just war. However, Gratian’s theory has a presumption against injustice whereas Mengzi’s theory has a presumption against war. As a jurist of the Church, Gratian sought to discriminate just from unjust wars, while Mengzi, a moral-political advisor to rulers, was more concerned with avoiding bloodshed and building lasting peace. In addition to examining these thinkers’ respective historical influences, I submit that Gratian’s Decretum and the Mengzi are pioneering in two more senses. First, they offer important clues to understanding how just war ideas were developed very differently in medieval Europe and in premodern China. Second, both embodied features that helped shape their subsequent intellectual tradition, which in turn molded the different legacies of these two works. | ||
650 | 4 | |a Gratian | |
650 | 4 | |a Mengzi (Mencius) | |
650 | 4 | |a Canon Law | |
650 | 4 | |a Just War | |
650 | 4 | |a presumption against injustice | |
650 | 4 | |a presumption against war | |
650 | 4 | |a Virtue Ethics | |
773 | 0 | 8 | |i Enthalten in |t Journal of religious ethics |d Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 1973 |g 48(2020), 4, Seite 689-729 |h Online-Ressource |w (DE-627)320450171 |w (DE-600)2005952-8 |w (DE-576)090888812 |x 1467-9795 |7 nnns |
773 | 1 | 8 | |g volume:48 |g year:2020 |g number:4 |g pages:689-729 |
856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jore.12329 |x Verlag |
856 | |u https://doi.org/10.1111/jore.12329 |x doi |3 Volltext | ||
951 | |a AR | ||
ELC | |a 1 | ||
ITA | |a 1 |t 1 | ||
LOK | |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 | ||
LOK | |0 001 3836532107 | ||
LOK | |0 003 DE-627 | ||
LOK | |0 004 1744708134 | ||
LOK | |0 005 20210114161019 | ||
LOK | |0 008 210114||||||||||||||||ger||||||| | ||
LOK | |0 040 |a DE-Tue135 |c DE-627 |d DE-Tue135 | ||
LOK | |0 092 |o n | ||
LOK | |0 852 |a DE-Tue135 | ||
LOK | |0 852 1 |9 00 | ||
LOK | |0 935 |a ixzs |a ixzo | ||
ORI | |a SA-MARC-ixtheoa001.raw | ||
REL | |a 1 | ||
SUB | |a REL | ||
SYE | 0 | 0 | |a Gratian |