Andrew Willard Jones
Professor at the College of St. Joseph the Worker and scholar of political thought and Catholic social teaching, contributing expertise on Aquinas and classical just war theory in the episode.
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Is the Iran War a Just War? | A Discussion of Catholic Social Teaching
Dr. Jared Goff, a professor who links Catholic social teaching to geopolitics; Dr. Alex Plato, an ethics and political philosophy scholar; and Dr. Andrew Willard Jones, an expert on Aquinas and classical just war theory. They probe legitimacy, promulgation, and modern warfare's moral limits. They debate proportionality, ambiguous objectives, secrecy versus public justification, and whether opaque motives mean withholding support.
