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)
For if they refer all things to honourableness, and do not say that pleasure is in it, he says they sound with an empty voice — for he uses these very words — and neither understand nor see what meaning is to be placed beneath this word 'honourable.
in the texts
On Moral Ends
The Stoic principle that only the honourable (moral virtue) constitutes the good
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.
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.
Of those that pertain, nothing is good except honourable actions;
Letters to Lucilius
Moral honorableness, distinguished from but linked to the good
The subject itself reminds me to say what the difference is between the good and the honourable.
The good is made by partnership with the honourable;