TY - BOOK ID - 136289074 TI - Honor for us : a philosophical analysis, interpretation and defense PY - 2010 SN - 1282977652 9786612977657 1441174966 9781441174963 9781282977655 6612977655 9781441188342 1441188347 PB - New York : Continuum, DB - UniCat KW - Honor. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136289074 AB - Honor For Us is the first contemporary philosophical inquiry into the concept of honor. It is unique not only in its analysis of six distinct concepts of honor, which includes an investigation into the place of honor in religious thought and ethics, but also in its interpretation of honor's prevalence in our own culture. Many would like to discard honor altogether as "obsolete", but Sessions contends that the concept of honor is poorly understood, standing sorely in need of clarification. He argues that the notion of honor remains viable in the face of powerful criticism, and that it has imp ER -