The Impact of the Military: on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies

John Witte; Michael Welker; Stephen Pickard

doi:10.5771/9783374071883

Summary

In an often violent and dangerous world military defense systems exercise a major role in the ways societies and nations function, develop their aspirations, protect themselves, promote their identities and shape their destinies. As we are only too aware at this time in global history, conflict, war and peace are deeply entangled and often morally ambiguous. This timely volume of essays offers contributions from Europe, Africa and Australia. It raises fundamental issues about the indispensability of the virtues in the military; the relationship between military and the public good; the nature of combatants and a soldier’s responsibilities for humanity and peace; moral and spiritual injury; and new challenges for pastoral care in the armed forces.

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Copyright Year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-3-374-07187-6
ISBN-Online: 978-3-374-07188-3
Publisher: EVA, Leipzig
Language: English
Pages: 188
Product Type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 12
Introduction No access Pages 13 - 24
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Part One: Combatants, Ethics, and Society No access Pages 25 - 26
The Military Defense System and the Public Soul in Germany: A Protestant Perspective No access Pages 27 - 38
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Inner Leadership, or The Soldier’s Responsibility for Humanity and Peace No access Pages 39 - 48
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The Complementary Path to Peace: On Peace Ethics in German Protestantism No access Pages 49 - 58
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Part Two: Virtues: Re-Evaluating the Military Context No access Pages 59 - 60
Which Morals Society Should Learn from the Military, and Which Decidedly Not No access Pages 61 - 78
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The Indispensability of Virtues in the Military: Virtue Ethical Considerations Following the Guiding Concept of the Miles Protector No access Pages 79 - 92
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Different Missions, Different Virtues? No access Pages 93 - 104
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From the Playing Field to the Battlefield: Does Sport in the Military Promote the Formation of a Specific Character? No access Pages 105 - 122
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After Chivalry No access Pages 123 - 138
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Part Three: Moral Injury and Character No access Pages 139 - 140
Moral Injury, Moral Character, and Military Combatants No access Pages 141 - 152
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In the Shadow of the Operation: Moral and Spiritual Injuries as New Challenges for Pastoral Care in the German Armed Forces No access Pages 153 - 166
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Communal Responses to the Business of War No access Pages 167 - 184
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Contributors No access Pages 185 - 188