Augustine
historical figure · 3 works · 13 mentions · 21 anchored passages
Augustin · Augustinus · St. Augustin · Augustine of Hippo
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Church Father cited on the criminality of unjust dominion and on the definition of just war.
Augustin, in defining those to be just wars, which are made to avenge injuries has taken the word avenge in a general sense of removing and preventing, as well as punishing aggressions.
He says, what are unjustly acquired dominions, but the Spoils of robbery?
“The Emperor, says Augustin, may recall his sentence, pardon and release a criminal;
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Church father cited as a source for the account of the Israelites' war against the Amorites.
Cui simile est quod in Mosis historia et inde apud Augustinum legimus, iusta bella Israelitas contra Amorrhaeos gessisse, quia innoxius transitus denegabatur; qui IVRE HVMANAE SOCIETATIS aequissimo patere debebat. Et hoc nomine Hercules Orchomeniorum, Graeci sub Agamemnone Mysorum Regi arma intulerunt, quasi libera essent naturaliter itinera, ut Baldus dixit. Accusanturque a Germanis apud Tacitum …
Invehitur Ambrosius in eos qui maria claudunt, Augustinus in eos qui itinera obstruunt;
Si iusta multi, et ipse Augustinus, arma crediderunt eo nomine suscipi, quod per terras alienas iter innoxium negaretur, quanto illa erunt iustiora, quibus maris, quod naturae lege commune est, usus communis et innoxius postulatur?