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This Course Includes
2 Topics
21 Lessons
1 Quiz
Course Certificate
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About this Course
The course is about How to Quickly and Easily Understand the Morality of War and Killing. Conflict at both the personal and international level is an unavoidable aspect of human experience. We have to take a realistic look at the human condition. We live in a fallen world, a world that has to be policed, a world where work and effort are required to maintain peace. Sometimes that effort needs to involve force of arms for the common good.
We also live in a technological world where advanced medical technologies and machines can provide vital life functions for a person that keep them alive longer than ever before. All of these facts raise SERIOUS moral questions, questions about war, self-defense, self-preservation and suicide.
Anyone who is really serious about morality will want to inform their consciences properly , that’s why we made this course.
Course Objective
Purpose: The purpose of this program is to provide the beginning student with a learned and well-spoken explanation and defense of the traditional Christian understanding of the morality of warfare and homicide in an INTERESTING AND EASY TO UNDERSTAND way.
Course Content
The course includes the lessons on audio for your convenience. There is also a downloadable study guide to help you follow the material and take notes.
- Introduction
- The Morality of Homicide
- The Morality of Capital Punishment
- The Morality of Vigilantism
- The Morality of Suicide
- The Morality of Killing the Innocent
- The Morality of Killing in Self-Defense
- The Morality of Killing by Chance
- Summary of Aquinas on Killing
- Vitoria on "Thou Shalt Not Kill"
- Objections to the Prohibition of Suicide and How to Answer Them
- Is It Ever Okay to Kill the Innocent?
- Doubts About Killing in Self-Defense
- Introduction to Just War Theory
- Aquinas on the Morality of Warfare
- What About Turning the Other Cheek?
- Eight Proofs that Christians May Engage in War
- What May Be a Reason and Cause of Just War?
- How We Might Know a War is Just
- Final Questions from Vitoria on Just War
- Why Just War Theory is Still Relevant and Applicable Today
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The Instructor
Dr. Scott M. Sullivan
Dr. Scott M. Sullivan is a homeschooling father of 8 and holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, TX.
He is the producer of numerous video courses in the areas of logic, the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, philosophical arguments for the existence of God, the historical evidence for the Christian faith, various topics in Catholic theology, and others.
He is also a member of the Committee on Logic for the American Catholic Philosophical Association Committee on Priestly Formation as well as the author of An Introduction To Traditional Logic, St. Thomas Aquinas and the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and is currently working on a new book entitled The Thomistic Teleological Argument.
Dr. Sullivan is a popular speaker throughout the United States who speaks on topics like the importance of teaching children on how to intellectually defend their faith, the complementary relationship between faith and reason, the importance of training in classical logic, why the study of philosophy is everybody’s business, and the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas.