STRENGTHENING MORAL COMPETENCE: A ‘TRAIN THE TRAINER’ COURSE ON MILITARY ETHICS

Abstract

Abstract If one of the most important aims of education on military ethics is to strengthen moral competence, we argue that it is important to base ethics education on virtue ethics, the Socratic attitude and the process of ‘living learning’. This article illustrates this position by means of the example of a ‘train the trainer’ course on military ethics for Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs), which is developed at the Netherlands Defence Academy, and uses a number of examples both from its structure and from experiences from its actual use.