Honourable
“honestum”
idea · 2 works · 4 mentions · 7 anchored passages
the honourable · honourableness · honourable
spoken of as
1 expressionThe honourable“honestum”2 mentions
On Moral Ends (Latin) · Letters to Lucilius (Latin)
And when these three kinds of the honourable have been marked, a fourth follows, of the same beauty and fitted to those three, in which there is order and moderation.
in the texts
On Moral Ends
The Stoic principle that only the honourable (moral virtue) constitutes the good
Of those that pertain, nothing is good except honourable actions;
Who, when reason has taught that what is honourable is the only good, must necessarily be always happy, and truly possess all those titles which are wont to be mocked by the ignorant.
And so, when it had been sufficiently established that that alone is good which is honourable, and that alone evil which is base, then among those things which had no force toward living happily or wretchedly they yet wished there to be something which differed, so that some of them were to be valued, others the contrary, others neither.
Letters to Lucilius
Moral honorableness, distinguished from but linked to the good
The good is made by partnership with the honourable;
The subject itself reminds me to say what the difference is between the good and the honourable.