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A moral military /

In this new edition of the classic book on the moral conduct of war, Sidney Axinn provides a full-length treatment of the military conventions from a philosophical point of view. Axinn considers these basic ethical questions within the context of the laws of warfare: Should a good soldier ever disob...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Axinn, Sidney
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009.
Edición:Rev. and expanded ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition; Preface to the First Edition; 1 Introduction; The Kind of Question Involved in Moral Military Action; Must Every Order Be Obeyed?; Forbidden Weapons? Nuclear Weapons? Terrorism?; The Good Soldier; Relations between Officers and Enlisted Personnel; The Moral Foundations of Soldiering; The Order of Topics; The Scope and Limits of This Study; 2 Morality: Why Sacrifice Myself?; What Are Moral Questions? What Is the Meaning of Duty?; The Four Different Theories of Morality; Universal Fairness; Social Utility; Individualism 
505 8 |a Religious Foundations The Range and Limits of the Different Moral Styles; The Professional Army Ethic; Choosing Among the Four Moral Styles; 3 Military Honor and the Laws of Warfare: When Can I Lie to the Enemy?; Military Education; Honor: Dual Duties; Honor and Personal Risk: Hero or Coward?; Conclusions; 4 Hostilities: All Is Not Fair; Protecting Powers; The Hague Rules and Some History; A Declaration of War; The Nature of Law; Status of Civilians; The Principle of Double Effect; Hostilities: The General Principle; The Hague Rules, Article 23; Protected Buildings 
505 8 |a Legitimate and Illegitimate Strategy 5 Prisoners of War; A History of the POW; Defining the POW; Treatment of POW's; Humane Treatment; Fact vs. Fiction; 6 Spies; Defining a Spy; Treason; Punishment for Spying; The Morality of Spying; Morality out of Uniform; Conclusions; 7 Non-hostile Relations with the Enemy; Parlementaires; Armistices; Surrenders; Safeguards; Military Passports, Safe-conduct Passes, and Cartels; 8 War Crimes, Remedies, and Retaliation (Dirty Warfare); Defining a War Crime; Biological Experiments; Taking Hostages: "Surrender, or I'll Kill This Child!"; Remedies and Reprisals 
505 8 |a Punishment for War Crimes Terrorism and the Concept of War Crimes; A Moral Defense for Terrorism?; 9 The Dirty-Hands Theory of Command; Dirty Harry; Four Styles; The So-called Moral Value of Guilt; Collective Morality; A Kantian Solution to the Problem of Dirty Hands; The Principles of Publicity; The Fallacy of Many Questions; 10 Torture; The Evolution of Torture; A Definition of Torture; Arguments For and Against the Use of Torture; Arguments Favoring the Use of Torture Only in Certain Situations; Political Categories Do Not Predict Attitudes Toward Torture; Conclusions 
505 8 |a 11 Nuclear Devices and Low-intensity Conflicts Nuclear Weapons; Low-intensity Conflicts, Covert Actions, and Psychological Warfare; The Fight against Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and Terror; 12 Conclusions; The War Conventions as a Moral Code; The War Conventions as International Law; Education: Military and Civilian; Military Honor: A Romantic Myth or a Serious Matter?; The Need for Publicity; Enemy Morality; Summary of Themes; Appendix 1. Are the Hague and Geneva Conventions Obsolete?; Appendix 2. Topics Not Considered in the Text; Appendix 3. Test on the Laws of Land Warfare; Notes 
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