Assertion: war | /r/HasProperty | justifiable
Facets:
value: morally
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Can war ever be morally justifiable?
text: However, once the student has considered, or is at least aware of the broader philosophical theories that may relate to war, an analysis of its ethics begins with the question: is war morally justifiable?
text: If we were to apply these principles to war, I would conclude that war is justifiable when it is in self-defense
text: Opponents of just war theory may be either inclined to a stricter pacifist standard (proposing that there has never been and/or can never be a justifiable basis for war) or toward a more permissive nationalist standard (proposing that a war need only serve a nation's interests to be justifiable).
text: The Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) maintained in De Jure Belli ac Pacis (1625; On the Law of War and Peace) that war is justifiable only if a country faces imminent danger and the use of force is both necessary and proportionate to the threat.