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

Date: 1920

## The fact

The English Summa prints the three requirements of just war (authority, just cause, right intention). A licence to wage war is a [humanitarian-access](/drivers/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](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

Official edition, Holy See, or archive page and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Summa Theologiae II-II q.40 — War (https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3040.htm; New Advent).

## Significance

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

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
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## People

- Thomas Aquinas: https://factrail.ai/people/thomas-aquinas

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3040.htm
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Thomas-Aquinas

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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