
Why Honor Matters
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Tamler Sommers
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Tamler Sommers
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To the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric.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.
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I learned a lot
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good content, narration sorta rough
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Engaging and thought provoking
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honor is a key to binding society's together
I am grateful that you didn't give up
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Outstanding read on a undervalued topic in America
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This was a great read and the audio-version (which he read himself) is fantastic as well.
A critical, yet seemingly impossible, topic!
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Easy to listen, great content
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I think honour might be operating just as widely within WEIRD cultures as in cultures with explicit honour codes . Yet we pretend that it doesnt matter. I love the way that framing things like refugee intake and the death penalty as honour issues gives you compelling moral arguments to motivate people to care about those issues in a bipartisan way.
I think this book makes better sense of our current climate than Johhathan Haidts book on the righteous mind, it at least complements it.
Tamler is right Honour matters and more books should be written about it.
Even Tamlers Reading performance is really good and you can hardly tell he is drunk for most of it.
Repugnant,
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fascinating portrayal of our society astray
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Philosophy for modern problems
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