Just War Segment

• The Fog of War"
• Why We Fight

1. Does Tim O’Brien form his conscience properly, and does he follow it?
2. Describe the moral culpability of O’Brien’s decision using: • the three sources of morality.
   • the requirements for a good moral choice: interiority, uprightness and responsibility.
   • the definition for a moral sin and the three criteria for committing a mortal sin.
   
3. Relate the method of moral decision making you chose. Tell whether or not O'Brien follows each step of your method.
   4. Explain why O’Brien says, “I was a coward. I went to war.” Do you agree or disagree? Explain.

1. Take short “Personal Survey on Fighting and War”
   
2. Read, know and understand idea of “spiral of violence.”
   
3. Major content: Read, know and understand Obligations and Formation of the Just War Theory”
   • Three types of obligations
   • How a conflict between these leads tot he formation of the just war theory.
   • Criteria for going to war “jus ad bellum.”
   • criteria for fighting in war “jus in bello.”
4. “Conscientious objector” versus “selective conscientious objector.”
5. Bush’s ‘just war’ doctrine article from U. S. News & World Report. This is not just a religious thing!

• Martin Luther King, Jr. the alternative of nonviolent resistance.
  
• Kreider and Yoder’s Christians and War a short history of the relationship between war and the gospel.
  
• Just-War Theory and the War in the Persian Gulf What do you think?
  
• Course description from the U. S. Military Academy
  
• Statements about in response to 9-11-01 form the Jesuit Conference and the bishops of Missouri
  
• Correspondence from Fr. Harrison when he wan in the Sudan, 1999.
• Read, know and understand “Principles of Nonviolent Direct Action”