From Flanders Fields to the Moviegoer: Philosophical Foundations for a Transcendent Ethical Framework

How do educators clergy attorneys and the concerned public come to terms with meaningful workable ethics in an age that eschews any attempt to define truth and error? Michael A. Milton has addressed that question in the new monograph From Flanders Field to the Moviegoer: Philosophical Foundations for a Transcendent Ethical Framework. Milton draws on English literature sociology history public policy and theology to mark milestones in the cultural journey from the philosophical crisis after World War I the end of modernity and the introduction of the theater of the absurd in post-modernity. Rather than merely a survey this monograph proposes a way forward in teaching metaphysical ethics. Originally given as a paper before American and British defense leaders in Washington DC Miltons original paper is now expanded for use in undergraduate graduate and postgraduate classrooms as well as libraries and professional military education.