Military Command as Moral Prudence
By Reed Bonadonna
September 22, 2017
War has been compared to an art, to science, to commerce, and sport. These are metaphors, and as such all may have their uses, but a little-known section of Thomas Aquinas’ massive Summa Theologica posits what is possibly the richest and most accurate characterization of command in war, that it is an act of moral prudence. The short discussion of moral prudence that follows owes a large debt to Dr. Gregory Reichberg’s recent Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace. Additionally, current events appear to give the military application of prudence considerable immediacy.
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