Tranquillitas ordinis
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Tranquillitas ordinis is a Latin phrase meaning the "tranquility of order" or "well-ordered concord". The term is associated with the Roman Catholic tradition of just war theory, and is found in the writings of Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas. Depending on the author and the context, the term is used to convey various meanings in theology and politics. These meanings include the divine order imposed on the universe and a theoretical framework for peace. Tranquillitas ordinis remains a cornerstone of Catholic teaching on peace. It is included in the framework laid out by Pope John XXIII in his 1963 encyclical, Pacem in terris, and is a featured topic at The Global Quest for Tranquillitas Ordinis, a conference organized by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.[1]
The Augustinian tradition
Augustine of Hippo defines the term "Tranquillitas Ordinis" in Book 19 of the
George Weigel
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References
- ^ The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. "The Global Quest for Tranquillitas Ordinis" (PDF). Pontifical Academies. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
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- ^ "Augustine reviews the opinions of the philosophers regarding the supreme good, and their vain efforts to make for themselves a happiness in this life; and, while he refutes these, he takes occasion to show what the peace and happiness belonging to the heavenly city, or the people of Christ, are both now and hereafter."Dods, Marcus. "Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 2". Christian Literature Publishing Co. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
- ^ Knight, Kevin. "Question 29. Peace". The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
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- ^ Weigel, George. "Moral Clarity in a Time of War". First Things. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
- ^ "There I argued that, as a theory of statecraft, the just war tradition contained within itself a ius ad pacem, in addition to the classic ius ad bellum (the moral rules governing the decision to go to war) and ius in bello (the rules governing the use of armed force in combat). By coining the phrase ius ad pacem, I was trying to prise out of the just war way of thinking a concept of the peace that could and should be sought through the instruments of politics—including, if necessary, the use of armed force. Like the just war tradition itself, this concept of peace finds its roots in Augustine: in The City of God, peace is tranquillitas ordinis, the “tranquillity of order,” or as I preferred to render it in more contemporary terms, the peace of “dynamic and rightly ordered political community.”Weigel, George. "Moral Clarity in a Time of War". First Things. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
- ^ Weigel, George. "Moral Clarity in a Time of War". First Things. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
- ^ Weigel, George. "Moral Clarity in a Time of War". First Things. Retrieved 19 April 2012.