The Code of the Warrior

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

4.7 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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War is a violent and bloody business, but it's rarely a no-holds barred free-for-all. Instead, codes of conduct that determine what is and isn't honorable behavior on the battlefield have existed since ancient times. My guest today explored these various codes in a book she wrote during the decade she spent teaching at the United States Naval Academy. Her name is Shannon French, she's a professor of ethics and philosophy, and her book is The Code of the Warrior: Exploring Warrior Values Past and Present.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, it's Brett. I am Sardin.
0:01.4	You're putting up another rerun episode of the podcast.
0:03.5	We had hope to come back from the holiday break with an entire slate of new episodes this month.
0:07.5	Unfortunately, I got really laid up by COVID last week and I wasn't able to finish the new episode plan for today.
0:13.3	The good news is I'm feeling better.
0:14.8	We'll have a new episode going up on Wednesday.
0:16.6	In the meantime, please enjoy this re-broadcast of episode number 625, Code of the Warrior.
0:22.0	See you Wednesday.
0:30.3	Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:34.2	War is a violent and bloody business, but it's rarely a no-hold-barred free-for-all.
0:38.9	Instead, codes of conduct determine what is and isn't honorable behavior on the battlefield
0:43.2	have existed since ancient times.
0:44.9	My guest today explored these various codes in a bookshierote during the decade she spent teaching
0:49.4	at the United States Naval Academy.
0:51.1	Her name is Shannon French.
0:52.4	She's a professor of ethics and philosophy, and her book is The Code of the Warrior.
0:56.1	Exploring Warrior values past and present.
0:58.4	Shannon and I began our conversation with the pointed questions she used to pose to the cadets she taught
1:02.7	as to how being a warrior was different from being a killer or murderer and when killing is and isn't ethical.
1:08.1	She then explains how the warrior codes which developed all around the world arose organically
1:12.3	from the warriors themselves for their own protection and how these codes are more about identity than rules.
1:18.0	Shannon and I then take a tour of warrior codes across time and culture, starting with the code in Homer's Iliad
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