Chivalrous Combatants?
The Meaning of Military Virtue Past and Present
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Bernhard Koch (Hg.), Chivalrous Combatants? (2019), Aschendorff Verlag, Münster, ISBN: 9783402117316
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The debate on remote-controlled and so-called autonomous military robotics has also led to new inquiries into the ethos of soldiers. Should soldiers take risks which technological means could easily help them to avoid? Will the deployment of drones and autonomous weapons systems lead to the demise of military virtues? How much technological asymmetry is acceptable in a battle? Is there a need for a new ethos of chivalry among soldiers? In selected papers, this book endeavors to trace the traditional fundamental ideas of chivalry and military virtues, such as courage. It also addresses the question of the ethical significance of such soldierly attributes in conflicts today.
Table of content
- Title
- Table of Contents
- Chivalry between History, Tradition and Obsolescence: Overcoming One-Dimensionality in the Ethics of War An Introduction into this Volume|Bernhard Koch
- 1. Plato†™s Approach
- 2. Virtues for Peace – Peace for Virtue
- 3. Polemos and Stasis
- 4. The Cosmopolitan Challenge
- 5. Chivalry as an Example and a Cipher
- 6. The Concrete Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention
- 7. On the Individual Chapters
- Chivalry and the Conduct of Warfare – Illusion and Reality|Malcolm Vale
- The (Non-)Importance of Chivalry in International Humanitarian Law Shadows of the Past or Answers to Challenges Ahead?|Stefan Oeter
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Chivalry and the Development of IHL
- 3. Traces of Chivalry in Current Treaty Law
- 4. Shadows of the Past or Core Content?
- 5. Challenges ahead – Non-State Actors and †˜Hybrid Wars†™
- Courage as a Cardinal Virtue – a Philosophical Profile|Jörn Müller
- 1. The subject matter: Courage as a particular or as a general virtue?
- 2. Courage and the emotions: Fear, confidence, anger
- 3. Courage and reason: Cool-headed practical deliberation
- 4. What makes courage a moral virtue? Will, goodness and difficulty
- 5. Summary: A universal notion of courage
- Thomas Aquinas on Battlefield Martyrdom|Gregory M. Reichberg
- The Meaning of Military Virtues for Peace – a Moral Theological Approach|Alexander Merkl
- 1. About the importance of virtues for peace in general
- 2. About the importance of virtues for the military
- 3. Military virtues – an exemplary selection: courage, obedience, comradery and chivalry
- 4. Conclusion: Virtues – important requirements for peace!
- Chivalry and Law-sustaining Force|Torsten Meireis
- 1. The Meaning of Chivalry
- 2. The Concept of Law-sustaining Force
- 3. Miles protector. A modern equivalent for the chivalrous knight?
- Is Proportionality a Matter of Attitude? A short Reflection about an Aspect of Virtue in Armed Conflict.|Bernhard Koch
- 1. A Case: Kunduz
- 2. Proportionality
- 3. Virtues
- Risks, Robots, and the Honorableness of the Military Profession|Peter Olsthoorn
- 1. Introduction
- 2. What honor is
- 3. Honor in the military
- 4. The use of robots and the honorableness of the military profession
- 5. Conclusion
- Chivalry and Sniping – Simply Incompatible?|Niklas Schörnig
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Chivalry as Concept, Norm, or Code
- 3. Snipers, Targeted Killings, and the Law
- 4. The “uneasiness† about Snipers
- 5. Sniping and Chivalry – Two Interpretations of the “Warrior Ethos†
- 6. Conclusion: Sniper and Knight – The Same Normative Founding?
- David Rodin†™s Critique of †˜Just War†™: A Counter-Critique |Nigel Biggar
- 1. A linguistic prologue
- 2. Rodin†™s challenge
- 3. The †˜self-defence†™ paradigm
- 4. Just war as punitive
- 5. The justification of killing
- 6. Just war as national defence
- 7. Just war as law-enforcement
- 8. Conclusion
- List of authors