Gratitude toward veterans : : why Americans should not be very grateful to veterans / / Stephen Kershnar.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Lanham, Maryland : : Lexington Books,, [2014] 2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (159 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- The American people are very grateful to veterans
- Argument
- Objection
- Conclusion
- Collective gratitude
- Gratitude
- The essence of gratitude
- Conclusion
- We should not be very grateful to veterans
- Argument for thesis #1
- Conclusion
- We should not be very grateful to draftees
- Less or no gratitude for drafted veterans
- Objections
- Conclusion
- Against the draft
- The draft is wrong
- Objections
- The irrelevance of the draft to wartime killing and destruction
- Conclusion
- In the future, U.S. citizens should avoid being grateful to veterans
- Argument
- Defense of premises
- Objections
- Conclusion
- The duty to obey military orders is surprisingly weak
- Concepts
- Argument
- Metaphysical objections
- Epistemic objections
- Role-relative and group duties
- Implications of the thesis
- Conclusion
- Lacking gratitude and virtue
- Vice and the lack of significant gratitude.