{"podcast":{"title":"Catholic Culture Audiobooks","slug":"catholic-culture-audiobooks-838976","podcast_index_feed_id":838976,"rss_url":"https://catholiccultureaudiobooks.libsyn.com/rss/last15","website_url":"https://www.catholicculture.org/audiobooks","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/0/2/3/6/02364c5af5388cc6/CCAudioBks-2021square-3000x3000.png","author":"Thomas V. Mirus","episode_count":15,"summary":"Voice actor James T. Majewski brings to life classic Catholic works, with a special focus on St. John Henry Newman and the Fathers of the Church. Over 100 recordings, including sermons, encyclicals, letters, poems, and full books like St. Augustine's De Doctrina Christiana, and St. Athanasius's Life of St. Anthony. A production of CatholicCulture.org.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/catholic-culture-audiobooks-838976"},"episode":{"title":"Elizabeth Anscombe - War and Murder","slug":"elizabeth-anscombe-war-and-murder","published_at":"2025-09-26T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/catholic-culture-audiobooks-838976/elizabeth-anscombe-war-and-murder","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/catholic-culture-audiobooks-838976","url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/217661/elizabeth-anscombe-war-and-murder","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/catholiccultureaudiobooks/Elizabeth_Anscombe_-_War_and_Murder.mp3?dest-id=1581884","summary":"\"Two attitudes are possible: one, that the world is an absolute jungle and that the exercise of coercive power by rulers is only a manifestation of this; and the other, that it is both necessary and right that there should be this exercise of power, that through it the world is much less of a jungle than it could possibly be without it, so that one should in principle be glad of the existence of such power, and only take exception to its unjust exercise.\" Elizabeth Anscombe was a prominent 20th-century British philosopher, known for her influential work in ethics and her deep commitment to Catholic doctrine. In her essay ‘War and Murder,’ Anscombe considers the morality of violent coercive power, critiques the influence of pacifist ideology, and defends the moral prohibition against killing the innocent -- grounding her arguments in the principle of double effect and its crucial distinction between intended and foreseen consequences. Read “War and Murder” https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/spring06/papers/anscombeWarAndMurder.pdf SIGN UP for Catholic Culture's newsletter http://www.catholicculture.org/newsletter DONATE at http://www.catholicculture.org/donate/audio Theme music: \"2 Part Invention\", composed by Mark Christopher Brandt, performed by Thomas Mirus. ©️2019 Heart of the Lion Publishing Co./BMI. All rights reserved.","meta_description":"\"Two attitudes are possible: one, that the world is an absolute jungle and that the exercise of coercive power by rulers is only a manifestation of this;…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2209,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/catholic-culture-audiobooks-838976/episodes/elizabeth-anscombe-war-and-murder/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/catholic-culture-audiobooks-838976/elizabeth-anscombe-war-and-murder.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}