Pursuing the Honorable

Reawakening Honor in the Modern Military

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvJustin M. Anderson,Kenneth W. McDonald

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Pursuing the Honorable argues that our modern understanding of honor, as seen through example of today’s military training, is deficient. To remedy this, the book returns to an understanding of the honorable good, especially manifested for philosophers like Aristotle and Cicero in a life of the human virtues. However, because honor as defined by the honorable good needs to be applicable to the 21st Century occidental world of liberal democratic values, the study includes careful attention to those conditions under which honor can once again become a live option. While special attention is given to military training, including concrete proposals for its renewal, what the study discovers extends to many forms of human life

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-05-15
Mått161 x 233 x 19 mm
Vikt404 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHonor and Obligation in Liberal Society: Problems and Prospects
Antal sidor148
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
MedarbetareBoylan,PeterJ.
ISBN9781498590280

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This book addresses the challenge of character education in the military through the prism of Virtue Ethics. This moral medium is internal to the vocation of the officer, yet conceptual incoherence infects certain virtues, such as honor. By taking on the equivocations in the concept of honor and martialing the history of philosophy to restore substantive content to the term, the authors show how rigorous analysis must accompany exhortations to virtue if character education is to be sound. This book will be gratefully received by the growing number of scholars and practitioners who believe that Virtue Ethics must be an academic emphasis at our service academies. As it is replete with practical suggestions as well as theoretical analysis, this book will also be of interest to those who teach ethics for the professions.