From the Ethos of Chivalry to a Regular Soldier’s Code of Honour. Selected Historical, Sociological and Legal Aspects

Abstract

The article depicts the issues of the ethos of chivalry in the contemporary conditions of the modern society. It is an attempt of synthesis presenting soldiers’ system of values with reference to tradition and history, as well as to the present. The authors have included a wide range of theoretical terms for the ethos of chivalry, creating army elitism and the systems of values especially ethical ones. There have been discussed issues of the ethos of chivalry with reference to Polish army tradition, as well as the dynamics of changes in systems of ethical values of Polish soldiers – modern knights.