| Description |
xvi, 227 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
SUNY series, ethics and the military profession
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SUNY series, ethics and the military profession.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-217) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Military ethics.
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Military ethics. |
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War -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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War -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
| ISBN |
9780791471265 paperback alkaline paper |
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079147125X hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780791471258 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0791471268 paperback alkaline paper |
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