Awakening Warrior: Revolution in the Ethics of Warfare Book

Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xv
The Unreflective Life: The Sleep of Reason     1
The Myth of Moral Progress     1
The Pseudo-Reflective Life: Battle Sleep     29
Reflection Deferred and Moral Error     31
Moral Authority     38
Lost in the Particulars     49
The Vices of Virtue     60
Is Moral Progress without Reflection Possible?     68
The Semi-Reflective Life: Instrumental Means     73
Instrumental Means and Moral Error     74
Inadequate Decision Procedures     77
A Philosophical Critical Method     82
Disregarding Ends: When Means Become Ends     93
Are Moral Means Possible?     101
The Quasi-Reflective Life: Inadequate Ends     105
Inadequate Ends and Moral Error     106
Disregarding Means: When Ends Eclipse Means     110
Presumed Ends     116
Deliberating New Ends     127
Are Moral Ends Possible?     133
The Fully Reflective Life: Autonomy for Automatons     137
Autonomous Modes and Methods of Philosophical Ethics     141
The Ethical Principles of War     151
From Heteronomy to Autonomy:Reformulating Moral Intuitions     157
Moral Autonomy: Creating Better Understanding and Motivation     166
Is Moral Autonomy Possible?     173
The Fully Reflective Life and Military Ethics     177
The Possibility of Moral Progress     177
Notes     187
Bibliography     215
About the Author     219
Index     221