Honoring The Code
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The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen
Author: Kwame Anthony Appiah
language: en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date: 2011-09-06
"[Appiah's] work reveals the heart and sensitivity of a novelist. . . .Fascinating, erudite and beautifully written."—The New York Times Book Review In this groundbreaking work, Kwame Anthony Appiah, hailed as "one of the most relevant philosophers today" (New York Times Book Review), changes the way we understand human behavior and the way social reform is brought about. In brilliantly arguing that new democratic movements over the last century have not been driven by legislation from above, Appiah explores the end of the duel in aristocratic England, the tumultuous struggles over footbinding in nineteenth-century China, the uprising of ordinary people against Atlantic slavery, and the horrors of "honor killing" in contemporary Pakistan. Intertwining philosophy and historical narrative, he has created "a fascinating study of moral evolution" (Philadelphia Inquirer) that demonstrates the critical role honor plays a in the struggle against man's inhumanity to man.
Loving Deeds for the Children
In this creative novel inspired by true events, a man called Hawk takes you on a fascinating and disturbing journey inside the walls of Lake Apache Academy which hosts some of the most troubled youth offenders across the nation. With eleven years of experience, Hawk has discovered that love is the blueprint of treatment to assist with healing the troubled youth. Though many of the youth fight daily to resist the treatment application, Hawk consistently challenges them to embrace the healing power of love.
Honor For Us
Author: William Lad Sessions
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date: 2010-10-21
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 important features which warrant our normative interest. While not downplaying the 'dark side' of honor (violence, sexism, inegalitarianism, its abuse in religion), Sessions shows that honor not only constitutes a descriptively useful concept but also remains a potentially valuable concept for us today.