Reputation
idea · 6 works · 6 mentions · 9 anchored passages
reputation · repute · character · distinction · fame · glory · honor · opinion · pecuniary credit · praise
in the texts
De legendis gentilium libris
The concern for outward opinion which the passage urges the young to reject in favor of right reason.
There is nothing the man of sense must flee more than living for reputation, and looking about at what seems good to the many, and not making right reason the guide of his life—so that, even if he must contradict all men, even if he must lose repute and run risks for what is noble, he should choose to swerve in nothing from what he has rightly resolved.
Antidosis
Public opinion about Isocrates' character, speech, wealth, and profession, which the discourse seeks to correct and preserve.
For if you comply with this advice, you will be better able to determine whether I speak in a manner worthy of my reputation.
nay, that some had been absolutely misled as to my pursuits and were inclined to listen to my detractors, while others, who were well aware of the nature of my work, were envious, feeling the same towards me as do the sophists, and rejoiced to see people hold false opinions of my character.
But when my eyes were opened, as I have said, to the fact that a greater number than I supposed had mistaken ideas about me, I began to ponder how I could show to them and to posterity the truth about my character, my life, and the education to which I am devoted, and not suffer myself to be condemned on these issues without a trial nor to remain, as I had just been, at the mercy of my habitual calumniators.
Panathenaicus
The social recognition owed to individuals, cities, and heroes, often distorted by envy, fiction, or inadequate praise.
Nevertheless, I elect to lend support to the man who has experienced the same misadventure as myself and many others and failed of the reputation he deserved, and who has been the author of the greatest services to the world of his time, albeit he is less praised than those who have done nothing worthy of mention.
If, then, one views Athens in this light and compares her, not with any city chosen at random, but with the city of the Spartans, which most people praise moderately while some extol her as though the demigods had there governed the state, then Athens, in her power, in her deeds and in her benefactions to the Hellenes, will be seen to have outdistanced Sparta more than Sparta the rest of the world.
And no one will be found, among those who rose to fame in his time or in later generations, to have accomplished an expedition more honorable than this or more advantageous to the Hellenes.
To Antipater
Public esteem and honor that attach to pupils, patrons, and Isocrates himself.
For all men of discrimination praise and honor those who are on intimate terms with superior men just as much as if they themselves were deriving profit from the services rendered.
For although many men of various countries have been my pupils and some of these are of great repute, and while of all the others some have proved to be distinguished for eloquence alone, and others in intellect and in practical affairs, and still others have indeed been men of sobriety of life and cultivated tastes, but for general usefulness in the practical affairs of life utterly devoid of nat …
and do you, I beg, whether he resides with you or remains inactive in that region, have a care for everything else which he may chance to need and especially for the personal safety of himself and of his father, considering them to be, as it were, a sacred trust committed to you by my old age, which might fittingly receive much consideration, and by the reputation I possess (if this, to be sure, i …
The Law of Intellectual Property
A person's standing or credit in various respects, treated as valuable incorporeal property.
A man’s pecuniary credit, or reputation for pecuniary responsibility, has value;
Republic
The distinction between actually being just or unjust and merely having a reputation for justice or injustice.
Fathers, when they address exhortations to their sons, and all those who have others in their charge, urge the necessity of being just, not by praising justice itself, but the good repute with mankind that accrues from it, the object that they hold before us being that by seeming to be just the man may get from the reputation office and alliances and all the good things that Glaucon just now enume …
But let him hold on his course unchangeable even unto death, seeming all his life to be unjust though being just, that so, both men attaining to the limit, the one of injustice, the other of justice, we may pass judgement which of the two is the happier.
For, unless you take away from either the true repute and attach to each the false, we shall say that it is not justice that you are praising but the semblance, nor injustice that you censure, but the seeming, and that you really are exhorting us to be unjust but conceal it, and that you are at one with Thrasymachus in the opinion that justice is other man’s good, the advantage of the other, and t …