What is honor? : a question of moral imperatives /
"In this book Alexander Welsh considers the history and meaning of honor and dismisses the idea that we live in a post-honor culture. He notes that we have words other than honor, such as respect, self-respect, and personal identity, that show we do indeed care deeply continuing process of resp...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2008]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- On moralities of obedience and respect
- Help from anthropology and psychology
- Respect in the ethics of Aristotle
- Cicero's mediation of the same
- Shakespeare's recourse to Roman honor
- His Antony, Cleopatra, and Coriolanus
- Honor by that name in Mandeville and Montesquieu
- Leveling down in Enlightenment fiction
- Coming of age in neoclassical drama
- And how Rousseau's Emile comes of age
- Kant's engagement with honor
- Parallels to Kant's moral philosophy
- Respect and Adam Smith's impartial spectator
- Adam Smith and recent social science
- Coming to terms with honor in philosophy.