Just War Theory and the Battle of Helm’s Deep

After the fight over a dozen, the war is clearly an important part of the "Lord of the Rings". However, even in this case, all the roads have reached Augustine. Because he is considered to be the founder of the legitimate war theory we know. Augustine is a 15th century theologian and bishop of Hippo. His view on war and morals is particularly important for the development of the theoretical values ​​of the Christian Justice War. However, Turkien had a long life in the trenches of the First World War, and there was also a strong emotion on war. As a devout Catholic, he believes in Augustine's legitimate war theory.

Historians and philosophers formed the theory of war just for centuries. However, the most systematic description of the theory of justice war was developed by St. Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologicae. According to the theory of war of justice, the moral reality of war can be divided into two parts. War was judged twice. The first visit refers to the reasons of domestic battle, and the second time refers to the means used in the actual battle. (Walzer, 21) The first verdict was called jus ad bellum, or justice. The second sentence is called a wartime trial, or justice in war. Jus ad bellum provides guidelines for assessing whether war is fair or unfair but wartime rules outline the correct behavior in warfare. Jus ad bellum does not mean jus in battle. Likewise, jus in battle does not need jus ad bellum. Justice warfare may be done unfairly so that it is possible to fight legitimate warfare.

Only war theory and law distinguish between reason (jus ad bellum) relying on war and rational behavior in war (jus in war). Most statements of the theory of justice warfare have four principles, each with its own label. Rational hope for justification, legal authority, right intent, necessity or final means, proportionality and success There are three principles in rule of war: three types of discrimination, necessity or minimum force, and Proportionality. These principles represent a comprehensive understanding of the morality of war, in a compressed form that is 300 years ago and the basic structure is almost the same. Since it develops synchronously with the state system based legal system, not the individual, its existing form theory is very different from the classical theory it belongs to.