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Title Empowering our military conscience : transforming just war theory and military moral education / edited by Roger Wertheimer
Published Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 207 pages)
Series Military and defence ethics
Military and defence ethics.
Contents Cover; Contents; Notes on the Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Great Awakening; PART I Jus ad Bellum; 1 The Triumph of Just War Theory (and the Dangers of Success); 2 "Methodological Anarchy": Arguing about Preventive War; 3 Crossing Borders to Fight Injustice: The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention; PART II Jus in Bello; 4 The Proper Role of Intention in Military Decision Making; 5 Ethics for Calamities: How Strict is the Moral Rule Against Targeting Non-combatants?; 6 Invincible Ignorance, Moral Equality, and Professional Obligation; PART III Jus ante Bellum
Summary Responding to increasing global anxiety over the ethics education of military personnel, this volume illustrates the depth, rigour and critical acuity of Professional Military Ethics Education (PMEE). While primarily focused on US military academies, the volume will resonate with those responsible for education in military academies across the globe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject 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.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
Conscience
Just war doctrine
Military education -- Moral and ethical aspects
Military ethics
Moral education
War -- Moral and ethical aspects
Gerechter Krieg
Kriegsrecht Völkerrecht
Ethik
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Wertheimer, Roger.
ISBN 9780754697657
0754697657
1282454277
9781282454279
9780754678946
0754678946