William Sessions on Honor

• Authors: Herrman Charles
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Preview: /Review of William Lad Sessions’, Honor For Us: A Philosophical Analysis, Interpretation and Defense (New York: Continuum, 2010), 226 pages./ William Lad Sessions in his Honor for Us: A Philosophical Analysis, Interpretation and Defense has written what is likely the very first philosophy of honor as a concept. In writing the definitive text he has done “honor” an inestimable service, though we shall require some few revisions to his presentation. He first identifies five general categories of honor, beginning with the two kinds of honor best known by their forms: conferred honor comes from being the best at something, what we will refer to as some “concrete” act, while recognition honor comes from an “excellence” that must be found, not made. We will say that these two forms refer in fact to “achievements” and “participations grounding excellence”, respectively.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 1(7)
• Pages: 141-150

Dates

published

2019-04-30

Contributors

author

Herrman Charles

• Independent Scholar

Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2019.0011