Shannon E. French

The Code of the Warrior

Exploring Warrior Values Past and Present

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Produktbeschreibung

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 pre...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781442254923
• ISBN-10: 1442254920
• Artikelnr.: 45195244

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Acknowledgments 1 Why Warriors Need a Code 2 The Homeric Hero: A
Hector Who Wins? 3 The Two Faces of Rome 4 Vikings: Vengeance, Valkyries,
and Valhalla 5 "Never to do outrageousity nor Murder...": The Code of the
Warrior in the World of Mallory's Morte d'Arthur 6 Indigenous Americans:
Warriors of the Sacred Plains 7 Chinese Warrior Monks: The Martial Artists
of Shaolin 8 The Soul of the Samurai: Duty, Devotion, and Death 9
Revelation and the Rules of Engagement: Sultan Saladin and the Warriors of
Islam 10 The Warrior's Code Today: Do We Need New Ethics of War? Index
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