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What is honor? : a question of moral imperatives / Alexander Welsh.
LIBRA BJ1533.H8 W45 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Welsh, Alexander.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Honor.
- Conduct of life.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 228 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- On moralities of obedience and respect
- Help from anthropology and psychology
- Respect in the ethics of Aristotle
- Cicero's mediation of the same
- Shakespeare's recourse to Roman honor
- His Antony, Cleopatra, and Coriolanus
- Honor by that name in Mandeville and Montesquieu
- Leveling down in Enlightenment fiction
- Coming of age in neoclassical drama
- And how Rousseau's Emile comes of age
- Kant's engagement with honor
- Parallels to Kant's moral philosophy
- Respect and Adam Smith's impartial spectator
- Adam Smith and recent social science
- Coming to terms with honor in philosophy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300125641
- 030012564X
- OCLC:
- 175289892
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