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Honor.
Conduct of life.
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Sommers, Tamler, 1970-
Honor.
Conduct of life.
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Why
honor
matters / Tamler Sommers.
by
Sommers, Tamler, 1970-
Basic Books, 2018.
Call #:
179.9 S697w
Subjects
Honor
.
Conduct of life.
ISBN:
9780465098873 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
262 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Honor
matters -- Contours of
honor
-- Living without
honor
--
Honor
and community -- Violence and aggression --
Honor
and revenge -- Honorable justice --
Honor
contained.
Summary:
"A controversial call to put
honor
at the center of morality. To the modern mind, the idea of
honor
is outdated, sexist, and barbaric. It evokes Hamilton and Burr and pistols at dawn, not visions of a well-organized society. But for philosopher Tamler Sommers, a sense of
honor
is essential to living moral lives. In Why
Honor
Matters, Sommers argues that our collective rejection of
honor
has come at great cost. Reliant only on Enlightenment liberalism, the United States has become the home of the cowardly, the shameless, the selfish, and the alienated. Properly channeled,
honor
encourages virtues like courage, integrity, and solidarity, and gives a sense of living for something larger than oneself. Sommers shows how
honor
can help us address some of society's most challenging problems, including education, policing, and mass incarceration. Counterintuitive and provocative, Why
Honor
Matters makes a convincing case for
honor
as a cornerstone of our modern society."--From publisher.
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