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.
for he sees that you are over-ready to accept slanders and calumnies, while I, because of my age and my lack of experience in contests of this kind, shall not be able to reply to them in a manner worthy of my reputation;
And as I kept thinking upon it, I came ever to the same conclusion, namely, that the only way in which I could accomplish this was to compose a discourse which would be, as it were, a true image of my thought and of my whole life;
Panathenaicus
The social recognition owed to individuals, cities, and heroes, often distorted by envy, fiction, or inadequate praise.
second, that while some have praised her gracefully, they have lacked appreciation of their theme and treated it inadequately;
And yet, although I have been blessed with all these gifts, some in surpassing, others in sufficient measure, I am not content to live on these terms;
and, again, they praise my discourses and yet are envious of me personally for no other reason than because of these very discourses which they receive with favor.
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
but if I am unjust and have procured myself a reputation for justice a godlike life is promised.
Consider further, Socrates, another kind of language about justice and injustice employed by both laymen and poets.
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.