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The Morality of War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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When your chaplain asked me whether I should like to talk to you on the morality of war, I had to tell him that there was nothing I should like to talk about less. I can think of no less cosy subject for a Sunday morning chat in this year of grace 1949.

The trouble, of course, is not just that it is such a complex moral issue in the abstract, but rather because war is so real, so imminent, so possible, so probable.

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Research Article
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Copyright © 1949 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 An abstract of an address given at the Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy, Trinity Sunday, 1949.

2 Further to this, see the author's ‘Wars and Humours of Wars’, Blackfriars, June, 1939, pp. 401 ff.