Honour
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 10 anchored passages
honour · glory · brilliant glory · false reputation · famous · gladness which attends upon honours · good name · honours · love of honour · praise
in the texts
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
A complex and imprecise idea concerning reputation and the esteem of others, analysed as a social construct distinct from legal duty.
There is a remarkable difference between the civil laws, those jealous guardians of life and property, and the laws of, what is called, honour, which particularly respects the opinion of others.
Honour, being produced after the formation of society, could not be a part of the common deposite, and therefore, whilst we act under its influence, we return, for that instant, to a state of nature, and withdraw ourselves from the laws, which in this case are insufficient for our protection.
Honour is a term which has been the foundation of many long and brilliant reasonings, without annexing to it any precise or fixed idea.
Hiero
Recognition, praise, glory, and free public esteem, contrasted with forced obeisance and flattery.
For no human joy seems to be more nearly akin to that of heaven than the gladness which attends upon honours.
Well yes, replied Simonides, in this of course I agree with you entirely, Hiero, that praise from the freest is sweetest.
For whenever men feel that some person is competent to be their benefactor, and come to regard him as the fountain of blessings, so that henceforward his praise is ever on their lips, everyone of them looks on him as his peculiar blessing, they make way for him spontaneously and rise from their seats, through love and not through fear, crown him for his generosity and beneficence, and bring him fr …
Symposium
Public esteem and glory gained through virtue, brave action, and honorable conduct.
For false reputation is soon exposed when tried by experience, whereas true manly virtue,—barring the interposition of Providence,—confers ever more and more brilliant glory when put to the test of actual deeds.
would not a person discover that they are all done for glory’s sake by persons willing to endure hardship and jeopardy, rather than by those who are drifting into the habit of preferring pleasure to a good name?
Now if he were to believe that he is going not merely to shed lustre on himself and his father but also to acquire through his manly virtue the ability to serve his friends and to exalt his country by setting up trophies of victory over its enemies, and for these reasons draw the admiring glances of all and be famous among both Greeks and barbarians, do you not suppose that he would esteem and hon …