Gratitude toward veterans : why Americans should not be very grateful to veterans /

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Veterans are celebrated with speeches, statues, memorials, holidays, and affirmative action. They are lavishly praised in public gatherings and private conversations. Contradicting this widespread attitude, Stephen Kershnar's <span style=""font-style:italic;"">Gratitud...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kershnar, Stephen (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014]
Temas:
Seberíni, Ondrej
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Veterans > United States.
Civil-military relations > United States.
Gratitude.
Anciens combattants > États-Unis.
Relations pouvoir civil-pouvoir militaire > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Civil-military relations.
Veterans.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The American people are very grateful to veterans
  • Argument
  • Objection
  • Conclusion
  • Collective gratitude
  • Gratitude
  • The essence of gratitude
  • Conclusion
  • We should not be very grateful to veterans
  • Argument for thesis #1
  • Conclusion
  • We should not be very grateful to draftees
  • Less or no gratitude for drafted veterans
  • Objections
  • Conclusion
  • Against the draft
  • The draft is wrong
  • Objections
  • The irrelevance of the draft to wartime killing and destruction
  • Conclusion
  • In the future, U.S. citizens should avoid being grateful to veterans
  • Argument
  • Defense of premises
  • Objections
  • Conclusion
  • The duty to obey military orders is surprisingly weak
  • Concepts
  • Argument
  • Metaphysical objections
  • Epistemic objections
  • Role-relative and group duties
  • Implications of the thesis
  • Conclusion
  • Lacking gratitude and virtue
  • Vice and the lack of significant gratitude.

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