Military Obedience: Does the Answer Lie in Professionalism?
Publication Type |
Journal Article |
Year of Publication |
2002 |
Author |
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Journal |
Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal |
Volume |
10 |
Pages |
207-230 |
Language |
English |
Publish Dates |
Summer-Fall-Winter |
Keywords |
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Annotation |
Giddy, very briefly, draws on Weil’s thought in The Need for Roots to address his larger concern: the problems created for the military in what he argues, is a larger cultural devaluation of obedience to authority. In particular, he uses Weil’s discussion of the relationship between obedience and rights to argue for the need for “a substantive (rather than simply procedural) social good, namely nationhood” to serve as the foundation for the development of a sense of ethical obedience in the military. |