Pursuing the Honorable: Reawakening Honor in the Modern Military: Honor and Obligation in Liberal Society: Problems and Prospects
Autor Justin M. Anderson, Kenneth W. McDonald Cuvânt înainte de Peter J. Boylan, Jr.en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 mai 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781498590280
ISBN-10: 1498590284
Pagini: 158
Ilustrații: 2 graphs;
Dimensiuni: 161 x 233 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Seria Honor and Obligation in Liberal Society: Problems and Prospects
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1498590284
Pagini: 158
Ilustrații: 2 graphs;
Dimensiuni: 161 x 233 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Seria Honor and Obligation in Liberal Society: Problems and Prospects
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Chapter 1 Problems Surrounding Honor in Military Training: the Case of West Point
Chapter 2 From Honor to the Honorable
Chapter 3 The Historical Loss of the Notions of Honor & the Honorable
Chapter 4 Some Necessary Conditions for Rehabilitating Honor
Chapter 5 Implementation: Practices & Assessment
Chapter 2 From Honor to the Honorable
Chapter 3 The Historical Loss of the Notions of Honor & the Honorable
Chapter 4 Some Necessary Conditions for Rehabilitating Honor
Chapter 5 Implementation: Practices & Assessment
Recenzii
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.
After a long period of near neglect, both the role honor used to play in earlier days and its subsequent demise have received quite some attention in recent years. This excellent volume adds to that growing body of literature. But it does considerably more than that: instead of merely stating how regrettable the current state of affairs is, the authors provide us with some useful insights on how honor could be brought back to life in our modern society. Although their example is the military, one of the few remaining strongholds of honor in our time, this book contains some worthwhile lessons on a possible beneficial role for honor in society at large.
Anderson and McDonald revive an important discussion of honor based in both human and 'practice-based' virtues that are critical to the future of professions and those who serve in, and are served by them. The US Military Academy at West Point serves as a nice case study for their treatise as its developmental program models a combination of both Athens and Sparta - intellectual development coupled with the building of military, physical and character skills. As all professions should, West Point continues to evolve honor development programs to make sure they are readying cadets for the ethical challenges of tomorrow.
After a long period of near neglect, both the role honor used to play in earlier days and its subsequent demise have received quite some attention in recent years. This excellent volume adds to that growing body of literature. But it does considerably more than that: instead of merely stating how regrettable the current state of affairs is, the authors provide us with some useful insights on how honor could be brought back to life in our modern society. Although their example is the military, one of the few remaining strongholds of honor in our time, this book contains some worthwhile lessons on a possible beneficial role for honor in society at large.
Anderson and McDonald revive an important discussion of honor based in both human and 'practice-based' virtues that are critical to the future of professions and those who serve in, and are served by them. The US Military Academy at West Point serves as a nice case study for their treatise as its developmental program models a combination of both Athens and Sparta - intellectual development coupled with the building of military, physical and character skills. As all professions should, West Point continues to evolve honor development programs to make sure they are readying cadets for the ethical challenges of tomorrow.