Honor


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1 The relation of honor and fame, praise and reputation.
2 Honor and fame in the life of the individual.
3 The sense of honor and of shame, loyalty to the good.
4 Honor as an object of desire and as a factor in virtue and happiness, flattery, imitation, or emulation.
5 Honor as due self-esteem, magnanimity or proper pride.
6 Honor or fame as a mode of immortality.
7 Honor as the pledge of friendship, the codes of honor among social equals.
8 The social realization of honor and fame.
9 The reaction of the community to its good or great men.
10 The conditions of honor or fame and the causes of dishonor or infamy.
11 Honor in the political community and in government.
12 Honor as a principle in the organization of the state, timocracy and monarchy.
13 The scale of honor in the organization of the state, the just distribution of honors.
14 Honor as a political technique, the uses of praise, prestige, public opinion.
15 Honor, fame, and the heroic.
16 Honor as a motivation of heroism.
17 Hero-worship, the exaltation of leaders.
18 The occasions of heroism in war and peace.
19 The estimation of the role of the hero in history.
20 The idea of glory, its distinction from honor and fame.
21 The glory of God, the signs and the praise of the divine glory.
22 The reflected glory of angels, saints, and martyrs.


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