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Common European Security & Defence Culture The Ethical Aspect

Common European Security & Defence Culture The Ethical Aspect. Lecture To Military Academic Forum Reichenau 2012 on September 25/2012. Aim.

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Common European Security & Defence Culture The Ethical Aspect

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  1. Common EuropeanSecurity & Defence CultureThe Ethical Aspect Lecture To Military Academic Forum Reichenau 2012 on September 25/2012

  2. Aim To confront the participants with the fundamental ethical approach on the collaboration between state/society and armed forces as well as to introduce necessary derivations therefrom.

  3. Agenda • War & peace • State & democracy • Military & soldier • Obedience & loyalty • Questions & Discussion

  4. War Πόλεμος πάντων μεν πατήρ έστι, πάντων δε βασιλεύς Heraklit Without fight, there is no living! Friedrich W. Schelling

  5. Peace Anthropological constant: Human being is a dialectical creature! Peace is an achievement of Culture. Everlasting peace is an illusion. Force is an instrument to keep the peace. Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Spinoza

  6. State Each culture has ist own conventions. Aim: to achieve peace amongst the culture-members and generate protection State: conventions of a culture clotted into a regime and an organization Si vis pacem para bellum! Vegetius

  7. Democracy Form of a government within the state that allows each subject to participate on the political process. Hence derived 2 obligations: Education Right on defence A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. Plato

  8. Military Armed Forces within a state. Obligation to protect the state and its politics. State without military is not to be considered as an independant country! Where justice fades into injustice, resistance becomes to an obligation! Bert Brecht

  9. Soldier A soldier is more than a warrior. A soldier is loyal to a state. A soldier has the obligation to sacrifice himself for the state. Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. Thomas Jefferson

  10. Obedience Outmost level of ambition for the military! Core value of each single soldier! To achieve this aim the soldiers are not only to train but to educate! Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. Aeschylus

  11. Loyalty Confidence! Capability to resist. Willingness to resist. Relationship between state and citizen! Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. Mark Twain

  12. The soldier is not a citizen in uniform! The citizen is always a soldier but having received the fortune being allowed to live under peaceful conditions!

  13. Thank you for your attention!

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