THE CODE OF THE WARRIOR: Exploring Warrior Values Past and Present
Shannon E. French, . . Rowman & Littlefield, $24.95 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-8476-9756-4
This dense, absorbing and valuable book studies the ethics governing warriors throughout history. French, a professor of philosophy and ethics at the U. S. Naval Academy, believes that the warrior needs an ethical framework not only to be an effective fighter but to remain a human being—and even to save his or her soul. With amazingly smooth writing for an academic study, she surveys the warrior ethic of various cultures as revealed in histories and, especially, their literatures, from the
Reviewed on: 01/20/2003
Genre: Nonfiction
Other - 272 pages - 978-1-4616-4416-3
Paperback - 272 pages - 978-0-8476-9757-1