Pursuing the Honorable

Justin M. Anderson is associate professor of Christian ethics at Seton Hall University.Kenneth W. McDonald is professor of engineering management at the United States Military Academy.

This book addresses the challenge of character education in the military through the prism of Virtue Ethics. This moral medium is internal to the vocation of the officer, yet conceptual incoherence infects certain virtues, such as honor. By taking on the equivocations in the concept of honor and martialing the history of philosophy to restore substantive content to the term, the authors show how rigorous analysis must accompany exhortations to virtue if character education is to be sound. This book will be gratefully received by the growing number of scholars and practitioners who believe that Virtue Ethics must be an academic emphasis at our service academies. As it is replete with practical suggestions as well as theoretical analysis, this book will also be of interest to those who teach ethics for the professions.

• Chapter 1 Problems Surrounding Honor in Military Training: the Case of West PointChapter 2 From Honor to the HonorableChapter 3 The Historical Loss of the Notions of Honor & the HonorableChapter 4 Some Necessary Conditions for Rehabilitating HonorChapter 5 Implementation: Practices & Assessment