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Awakening warrior : revolution in the ethics of warfare /

"Awakening Warrior argues for a revolution in the ethics of warfare for the American War Machine - those political and military institutions that engage the world with physical force. Timothy L. Challans focuses on the systemic, institutional level of morality rather than bemoaning the moral sh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Challans, Timothy L., 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2007.
Colección:SUNY series, ethics and the military profession.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.