It was already Augustine who dealt with the problem of obedience with regard to unlawful acts and considered that even when a given ruler engaged in an unjust war, the soldier might still establish his innocence for having followed that very same order.1 In sharp contrast thereto, it was Grotius who stated that where a war was unjust, the individual soldier would then be entitled to refuse to participate.2 Finally Francisco de Vitoria distinguished between situations where it is evident that the war is unjust and where accordingly a subject is not under an...
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