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Awakening warrior : revolution in the ethics of warfare /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Challans, Timothy L., 1954-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2007]
Subjects:
War > Moral and ethical aspects.
Military ethics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The unreflective life : the sleep of reason
  • The myth of moral progress
  • The pseudo-reflective life : battle sleep
  • Reflection deferred and moral error
  • Moral authority
  • Lost in the particulars
  • The vices of virtue
  • Is moral progress without reflection possible?
  • The semi-reflective life : instrumental means
  • Instrumental means and moral error
  • Inadequate decision procedures
  • A philosophical critical method
  • Disregarding ends : when means become ends
  • Are moral means possible?
  • The quasi-reflective life : inadequate ends
  • Inadequate ends and moral error
  • Disregarding means : when ends eclipse means
  • Presumed ends
  • Deliberating new ends
  • Are moral ends possible?
  • The fully reflective life : autonomy for automatons
  • Autonomous modes and methods of philosophical ethics
  • The ethical principles of war
  • From heteronomy to autonomy : reformulating moral intuitions
  • Moral autonomy : creating better understanding and motivation
  • Is moral autonomy possible?
  • The fully reflective life and military ethics
  • The possibility of moral progress.