Code of the Warrior (eBook)

Exploring Warrior Values Past and Present

Shannon E. French (Autor)

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2016 | 2., Second Edition
298 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-5491-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Drawing on philosophy, history, moral psychology, and ethics, this revised and expanded edition of French’s The Code of the Warrior examines historical and contemporary warrior cultures and their values, arguing that today’s warriors need a code, as their ancestors did, to prevent them from crossing the thin but critical line that separates warriors from murderers in the battle against global terrorism.

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This revised and expanded second edition of The Code of the Warriora book George R. Lucas has described as groundbreaking and now part of the Military Ethics canontakes the reader on a tour of warrior cultures and their values, from the ancient Greeks and Romans to the ';barbaric' Vikings and Celts, from chivalric knights to Native American tribesmen, from Chinese warrior monks pursuing enlightenment to Japanese samurai practicing death. This new edition enhances these discussions with analyses of modern-day warriors and examines the ethical dimensions of emerging military technology such as drones, cyber warfare, and bio-enhanced troops. A new chapter also addresses the Islamic warrior code, both in its historic and modern implementations. Drawing these historical traditions up to the present, this book seeks a code for the warriors of today, as they do battle in asymmetric conflicts both remotely and face-to-face against the scourge of global terrorism. This book offers a comprehensive survey of historic and modern warrior cultures for students of military history, philosophy, and ethics.

Autor

Shannon E. French is the Inamori Professor of Ethics, Director of the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence, and a tenured member of the Philosophy Department at Case Western Reserve University.

Inhalt

ForewordAcknowledgments1 Why Warriors Need a Code2 The Homeric Hero: A Hector Who Wins?3 The Two Faces of Rome4 Vikings: Vengeance, Valkyries, and Valhalla5 “Never to do outrageousity nor Murder…”: The Code of the Warrior in the World of Mallory’s Morte d’Arthur6 Indigenous Americans: Warriors of the Sacred Plains7 Chinese Warrior Monks: The Martial Artists of Shaolin8 The Soul of the Samurai: Duty, Devotion, and Death9 Revelation and the Rules of Engagement: Sultan Saladin and the Warriors of Islam10 The Warrior’s Code Today: Do We Need New Ethics of War?IndexAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.11.2016
• Vorwort: Joseph J. Thomas
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Military Ethics • warrior culture
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-5491-2 / 1442254912
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-5491-6 / 9781442254916