Empowering our military conscience
Subtitle: transforming just war theory and military moral education
By: edited by Roger Wertheimer.
Contributors: Wertheimer, Roger.
Series: Military and defence ethics
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754678946; 9780754697657
Subjects: Military education -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States; Military education -- Moral and ethical aspects; Conscience -- United States; Conscience; Military ethics -- United States; Military ethics; Just war doctrine; Moral education -- United States; Moral education; War -- Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Roger Wertheimer; title: Introduction: A great awakening / Roger Wertheimer; title: pt. 1. Jus ad bellum; title: The triumph of the just war tradition, and the dangers of success / Michael Walzer; title: Methodological anarchy : arguing about preventive war / George R. Lucas, Jr.; title: Crossing borders to fight injustice : the ethics of humanitarian intervention / Richard Miller; title: pt. 2. Jus in bello; title: The proper role of intention in military decision-making / Thomas Scanlon; title: Ethics for calamities : how strict is the moral rule against targeting noncombatants? / Jeffrey Reiman; title: Invincible ignorance, moral equality, and professional obligation / Richard Schoonhoven; title: pt. 3. Jus ante bellum; title: The moral singularity of military professionalism / Roger Wertheimer; title: The morality of military ethics education / Roger Wertheimer.