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Why Americans Should Not Be Very Grateful to Veterans
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Americans are very grateful to veterans. Veterans are celebrated via speeches, statues, memorials, holidays, and affirmative action. They are lavishly praised in public gatherings and private conversations. Contrary to this widespread attitude, Stephen Kershnar argues that U.S. citizens should not be very grateful to veterans. In evaluating whether the significant gratitude toward veterans is justified, Kershnar begins by exploring the nature of gratitude. He argues that one person should be very grateful to a second person only when the second person reasonably attempted to provide a significant benefit to the first and was primarily motivated by concern for the first's well-being. Gratitude toward Veterans: Why Americans Should Not Be Very Grateful to Veterans looks at whether veterans typically satisfy these conditions and argues that they do not. The book should be taken seriously not only by scholars in military ethics and ethics in general, but also by anyone interested in the question of how much gratitude is owed to people holding different roles.


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Americans are very grateful to veterans. Veterans are celebrated via speeches, statues, memorials, holidays, and affirmative action. They are lavishly praised in public gatherings and private conversations. Contrary to this widespread attitude, Stephen Kershnar argues that U.S. citizens should not be very grateful to veterans. In evaluating whether the significant gratitude toward veterans is justified, Kershnar begins by exploring the nature of gratitude. He argues that one person should be very grateful to a second person only when the second person reasonably attempted to provide a significant benefit to the first and was primarily motivated by concern for the first's well-being. Gratitude toward Veterans: Why Americans Should Not Be Very Grateful to Veterans looks at whether veterans typically satisfy these conditions and argues that they do not. The book should be taken seriously not only by scholars in military ethics and ethics in general, but also by anyone interested in the question of how much gratitude is owed to people holding different roles.


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VerlagBloomsbury eBooks US
EinbandAdobe Digital Editions
Erscheinungsjahr2014
Seitenangabe170 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
Abbildungen6 Tables
Auflage14001 A. 1. Auflage
PlattformEPUB
AutorKershnar, Stephen

Über den Autor Stephen Kershnar

Stephen Kershnar is a distinguished teaching professor in the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He is also an attorney. Kershnar focuses on applied ethics and political philosophy. He has written more than one hundred articles and book chapters on such diverse topics as abortion, desert, moral responsibility, punishment, and religion. He is the author of twelve books, including Morality Collapses: Against the Right and the Good (New York: Routledge, 2025), Responsibility Collapses: Why Moral Responsibility is Impossible (New York: Routledge, 2023), and Desert Collapses: Why No One Deserves Anything (New York: Routledge, 2022). Nathan Bray is a doctoral candidate at the University of St Andrews. He works mainly in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics. Within these fields, his favorite topics, in no particular order, are the cosmological argument, divine freedom, and animal ethics. His works have appeared in Public Affairs Quarterly and Between the Species.

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