Tag: 04 Panel Discussion
By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: On The Death Penalty (Bessette, Feser, Bradley & O’Callaghan, 2017)
Joseph Bessette (Claremont McKenna College), Edward Feser (Pasadena City College), Gerard Bradley (Notre Dame Law School), and John O’Callaghan (Notre Dame) discuss capital punishment focussed on Bessette and Feser’s book
[su_youtube url="https://youtu.be/dZeo77sPLdc"][/su_youtube]A Call for Reckoning: Religion and the Death Penalty (Meilaender, Dulles, Budziszewski and others, 2002)
Major discussions on the death penalty including contributions from Avery Cardinal Dulles, David Novak, Gilbert Meilaender and J. Budziszewski
Natural Law and Virtue in Relation to Positive Law and Governance (Porter, Hittinger, Weinreb, 2013)
Colloquium on Natural Law, Virtue and Governance (3 videos)
Conference in Honour of Gilbert Meilaender [4 videos] (Meilaender and others, 2015)
Embodiment
Grace and Nature
Politics & Human Destiny
Response to Papers by Meilaender
Teaching the Western Just War Tradition (Naval Academy, 2015)
Dr. Martin Cook, US Naval War College, Dr. Chris Eberle, US Naval Academy, Midshipman Andrea Howard and Midshipman Eric Swanson discuss the ethics and Just War curricula at the U.S. Naval Academy and the Naval War College. Dr. Cook presently teaches what has come to be known as the “Stockdale Course”, which is based upon the Book “Foundations of Moral Obligation” written by Gerard Brennan, with the help of Admiral Stockdale. The course has been offered by the War College since the days of Admiral Stockdale’s tenure there. Dr. Eberle discussed the Ethics and Moral Reasoning course that is required study for all midshipmen during their 3rd class year. Midshipmen Howard and Swanson reflected on that course and made suggestions as to how it could be refined and tailored, to be responsive to all service selections, and expanding the units dealing with jus in bello issues that junior officers are likely to face in the Navy.
Just War Tradition (Barrett, Luban, Wolfendale, 2015)
Stockdale Center research fellows, Dr. Ed Barrett, Dr. David Luban and Dr. Jessica Wolfendale discuss their takeaways from a year of careful reading and analysis of classic texts in the Just War tradition. Dr. Luban discusses how the large wars of the twentieth century affected thought on the first use of force or ‘preemptive’ or ‘anticipatory’ force. Falling under the ‘just cause’ condition of traditional theory, he argues that the significant restrictions placed upon such moves has, by and large, been a positive development. The discussion revolves around the related notion of immediacy and immanence of threat. Dr. Wolfendale examines the criterion of “right intention” and argues that the work it does toward jus ad bellum sifting is redundant, mirroring proportionality criteria. It is also unclear how to apply the criterion to complex entities such as states and armies. Dr. Barrett discusses the doctrine of double effect and its relationship to virtue ethics and the causal, epistemic and other relationships between acts of violence that bring about the death of innocents as an unintended but foreseen consequenc