Titre : | Empowering our military conscience : transforming just war theory and military moral education |
Auteurs : | Roger Wertheimer |
Type de document : | Books |
Editeur : | Farnham [United Kingdom] : Ashgate, 2010 |
Article en page(s) : | 1 vol. (VIII, 207 p.) |
Collection : | Military and Defence Ethics |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-7546-7894-6 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Catégories : |
3.15 Philosophie et éthique > Éthique > Ethique appliquée > Éthique militaire 3.15 Philosophie et éthique > Éthique > Ethique appliquée > Guerre -- Aspect moral 3.15 Philosophie et éthique > Éthique > Ethique appliquée > Guerre -- Aspect moral > Guerre juste |
Tags : | Moral education ; Military education--Moral and ethical aspects ; Military ethics ; Just war doctrine ; Conscience ; War--Moral and ethical aspects |
Résumé : | In his former position as Distinguished Chair in Ethics at the US Naval Academy, Wertheimer (now at Agnes Scott College) oversaw a monthly lecture series in which outside philosophy professors were invited to give talks to Academy faculty and staff on military ethics. With Just War Theory providing the central theme of the collection, five of those talks and one other guest lecture by Michael Walzer, whose Just and Unjust Wars (1977) is required reading in US military academy ethics courses, are presented here. Walzer's lecture provides historical analysis of the historical development of jus ad bellum (justification for war) in Just War Theory, particularly as related to the Bush administration's justification for preemptive and preventive wars, and is followed by two other chapters examining the intellectual anarchy that characterizes much of jus ad bellum thinking in Just War Theory and critically interrogating the ethics of "humanitarian intervention." The remaining three chapters focus on jus in bello (concerning the conduct of war) principles, and include a critique of the common distinction between intentional and unintentional targeting of non-combatants, an exploration of the moral significance of the combatant-noncombatant distinction, and a critique of the principle that absolves individuals in war of moral complicity in war's harms. |
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