The Leader's Imperative: Ethics, Integrity, and Responsibility [Hardcover]

J Carl Ficarrotta Editor (Author)

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Publication Date: September 1, 2001

Drawn from the "Alice McDermott Memorial Lectures in Applied Ethics" held at the United States Air Force Academy, these 20 essays contribute to our understanding of ethics and leadership. Contributions come from a distinguished and diverse group of individuals including, Allan Bloom, Reverend Edward A. Malloy, John T. Noonan, Jr., James F. Childress, Christina Hoff Sommers, General Ronald R. Fogelman, and William J. Bennett. The range of topics include moral certainty and sensibility, professional and personal integrity, emergency ethics and the responsibility of war criminals, the just war and public policy, unethical adversaries and military obligation, and liberal education and character.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 313 pages
• Publisher: Purdue University Press (September 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557531846
• ISBN-13: 978-1557531841
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,559,449 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Filled cover-to-cover with thought provoking testimony, June 6, 2002

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This review is from: The Leader's Imperative: Ethics, Integrity, and Responsibility (Hardcover)

The Leader's Imperative: Ethics, Integrity, And Responsibility edited by J. Carl Ficarrotta is a complete presentation of the Reich and McDermott lectures on military ethics and leadership given at the U.S. Air Force Academy from the years 1988 to 1999. Assembling the words and thoughts of more than twenty veterans of high standing, these twenty lectures combine to address the ethics of warfare, moral education, keeping a center of values in the midst of deadly combat, and much more. The Leader's Imperative is eye-opening reading and filled cover-to-cover with thought provoking testimony about addressing the practical and very real problem of balancing the necessary evils of war with the necessary virtues of respect for human rights.