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English Dominican Summa prints II-II q.40 on just war as a licensed killing

The English Summa prints the three requirements of just war (authority, just cause, right intention). In the causal graph this event weakens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — an improving welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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The English Summa prints the three requirements of just war (authority, just cause, right intention). A licence to wage war is a humanitarian-access risk for people in the path even when it also limits private feuds.

Context

Just-war rules can restrain and can bless. Split any later UN-charter ancestry onto an improving natural-law row.

Thomas Aquinas is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

A printed war-licence is a harm heading for those later marched under a scholastic banner.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Thomas Aquinas

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    Named Dominican master as heading of later editions and papal acts. Printers, popes, and editors publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Summa Theologiae II-II q.40 — WarNew Advent · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Saint Thomas AquinasEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

English Dominican Summa prints II-II q.40 on just war as a licensed killing (1920-01-01). Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorThomas Aquinas
  2. contributed toFactEnglish Dominican Summa prints II-II q.40 on just war as a licensed killing
  3. weakensDriverHumanitarian Access
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). English Dominican Summa prints II-II q.40 on just war as a licensed killing. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/aq-just-war-q40

https://factrail.ai/facts/aq-just-war-q40

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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