Honor For Us A Philosophical Analysis, Interpretation and Defense [Paperback]

Honor For Us is the first contemporary philosophical inquiry into the concept of honor.? It is unique not only in its analysis of six distinct concepts of honor, which includes an investigation into the place of honor in religious thought and ethics, but also in its interpretation of honor's prevalence in our own culture. Many would like to discard honor altogether as 'obsolete', but Sessions contends that the concept of honor is poorly understood, standing sorely in need of clarification.? He argues that the notion of honor remains viable in the face of powerful criticism, and that it has important features which warrant our normative interest. While not downplaying the 'dark side' of honor (violence, sexism, inegalitarianism, its abuse in religion), Sessions shows that honor not only constitutes a descriptively useful concept but also remains a potentially valuable concept for us today.

Preface1. Introduction: Issues of HonorPart I. Concepts of Honor2. Five Peripheral Concepts3. Personal Honor4. Personal Honor, Morality and Religion5. Deviant Honor Part II. Honor's Reach6. The Honor of Warriors7. Sportsmanship as Honor8. Patriotism as Honor9. Academic Honor 10. Professional HonorPart III. Honor's Future11. In Defense of Honor12. Honor for UsBibliography

William Lad Sessions is the Ballengee Professor of Philosophy at Washington and Lee University, USA. He is the author of The Concept of Faith: A Philosophical Investigation (Cornell University Press, 1994) and Reading Hume's Dialogues: A Veneration for True Religion (Indiana University Press, 2002).