Awakening warrior [[electronic resource] ] : revolution in the ethics of warfare / / Timothy L. Challans

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778145503321
• Autore: Challans Timothy L. <1954->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2007
• ISBN: 0-7914-7991-9; 1-4294-9828-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Collana: SUNY series, ethics and the military profession
• Disciplina: 172/.42
• Soggetti: Military ethics; War - Moral and ethical aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-217) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.