Echoes of Chivalry : Military Honour and Human Dignity in the Age of Professional Armies / Francisco Lobo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lobo, Francisco, author.

Series:

Human Rights and Humanitarian Law E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

International Studies on Military Ethics ; 15.

Human Rights and Humanitarian Law E-Books Online, Collection 2026

International Studies on Military Ethics ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.

Humanitarian law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Military Honour and Human Dignity in the Age of Professional Armies

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Chivalry is not dead. Its echoes can be found in military manuals across the globe—from Australia, Chile, Germany, and India to Israel, Japan, South Africa, Ukraine, the United States, and the United Kingdom. But why is this the case? Is training in the Law of Armed Conflict not enough? Beyond baseline legal notions, additional normative standards of an ethical nature are essential to protect both civilians from unjustified harm and combatants themselves from moral injury. These additional standards are embedded in the concepts of military honour and human dignity. Together, they rejuvenate the old code of chivalry in the era of professionalised armed forces. For the first time, this book offers a thorough analysis and synthesis of these concepts.

Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgements

Prologue

1 Highway to Hell

2 This Is Not Who We Are

3 A Plea from Another World

4 The Better Angels of Our Nature

5 Paint it Black

6 Back to the Future

7 Research Questions, Methodology, and Structure

Introduction: Reliquaries of Honour

1 In the Halls of the Knights of Old

2 Echoes of Chivalry in the Age of Total War

3 The Code of Chivalry Decoded

4 Chivalry Lost and Found

5 Decoding Lions

1 War Is Our Business: Taking What Military Professionals Do Seriously

1 Introduction

2 The ‘Circumstances of War’ (CoW): a Proposal

3 The ‘Ethics of Killing’ Debate

4 Concluding Remarks

2 Military Honour

1 A Mere Scutcheon? Falstaff’s Catechism

2 Military Honour in the Literature

3 Human Dignity

1 The Quest for the Holy Grail

2 Human Dignity as an Essentially Contested Concept

3 Competing Conceptions of Human Dignity

4 Military Honour and Human Dignity

1 Introduction: a Tale of Two Dignities

2 What Killed the Duel? The Grammar of Equality in Dignity and War

3 Chasing after Windmills

4 Military Honour and Human Dignity in the Literature

5 Toward a New Jus Armorum

6 Chivalry Reappraised: Military Honour as Respect for Human Dignity

7 Holding High the Banner of Human Dignity

8 Concluding Remarks: Moving Past the Windmills

5 Professional Military Ethics Education

1 Introduction: Enter Sandman

2 Playing Soldier: the Military Profession and Soft Role-morality

3 Professional Military Ethics (‘PMEt’) and Ethical Schools of Thought

4 Military Doctrine and Rules of Engagement (‘ROE’)

5 Professional Military Ethics Training and Education

6 Military Virtues Revisited

2 The Cardinal Virtues and the Military

3 Concluding Remarks

7 Conclusions

1 Warrior or Soldier?

2 Professionalism as a Virtue?

3 Military Honour as a Reward for Professionalism: a Scutcheon for the Wars of the 21st Century

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-75409-1

9789004754096

OCLC:

1559217776

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004754096 DOI