The Honor-Based Society, Past and Present

• Authors: Charles Herrman

Abstracts

EN

This paper asserts that honor-based peoples have and maintain a distinct cultural identity that is valid for at least eighty-five percent of the world population. It is necessarily considered relative to dignity-based societies which make up the other fifteen percent. Practically all dignity-based cultures originated during the Enlightenment; modern honor-based groups will oftentimes through diffusion manifest some dignity-based traits or observe fewer of the traditional honor-based features. This paper will survey both traditional and modern forms of the honor-based culture.

Keywords

EN

honor; dignity; worth; respect; acceptance; trust; faith; merit; inherency

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 81-102

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Charles Herrman

• Independent Scholar

• https://orcid.org/0000000220933428

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2023.0006

Biblioteka Nauki

2902482