Making the Military Moral: Contemporary Challenges and Responses in Military Ethics Education

ISBN-13: 9780367667580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 176 str.

Don Carrick; James Connelly; David Whetham

Opis

Written by an international team of academic theorists and military practitioners, this volume provides inter-disciplinary insights into the present state, and the future, of ethics education in the militaries of Western democracies.

Recenzje

'Making the Military Moral provides a rich tapestry of diverse issues in military ethics and military ethics education. One of its great strengths is the diversity of perspectives, both disciplinary and international, it offers on these issues. This volume is an important contribution to an increasingly global conversation on issue of military ethics.' -- Martin L. Cook, United States Naval War College

Spis treści

1. On Making the Military Moral, James Connelly 2. Why Morality Matters to the Military, David Fisher 3. Military Ethics and the Importance of Cultural Competency, George Lucas 4. Solving the Military Moral Bystander Problem with Ethics Instruction, Peter Bradley & Allister Macintyre 5. Ethics at and after war: challenging battlefields, Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger and Michelle Moore 6. An Organic Professional Military Ethic and the Educational Challenge, Sally Rohan 7. Ethical Challenges for the Modern Military, John Thomas 8. Challenges in combining ethical education for conscripts and professional military: the Finnish point of view, Janne Aalto 9. Evaluating Military Ethics Education: common values, specific contexts, George Wilkes 10. Challenges to the Professional Military Ethics Education Landscape, David Whetham

O autorze

Don Carrick is an Honorary Research Fellow in Applied Ethics at the University of Leeds, UK.

James Connelly is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Hull, UK, where he is Director of the Institute of Applied Ethics.

David Whetham is Reader in Military Ethics in the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London, UK.