Why honor matters

by Sommers, Tamler

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Title Statements

Full title :Why honor matters / Tamler Sommers.

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 To the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric.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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2018
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Basic Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

Notes

This recording contains program announcements from a broadcast of Minnesota Radio Talking Book.

Single voiced narration, male.

Local call number 53512.

9 recorded hours.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (1 audio file)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781978643307, 1978643306
oclc:on1122618251
Dewey Decimal:179/.9

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