Protection of Creation and the Contemporary Form of Just War Theory
the Revisionist Theory of Jeff McMahan
Abstract
Just war theory is closely linked to the restriction of causing human, cultural and natural harm,therefore to the protection of Creation. The theory has had several forms during its history,which supported differently the restriction of causing harm and the protection of Creation.Three major forms of the theory can be distinguished from the birth of it: the medieval formsummarized by Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), the international law theory representedby Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) and Michael Walzer (1935-), and the contemporary revisionisttheory of Jeff McMahan (1954-). This paper concerns comparatively the revisionist theory fromthe perspective of protection of Creation.
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