Pursuing the Honorable

Download or read book Pursuing the Honorable written by Justin M. Anderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuing the Honorable argues that our modern understanding of honor, as seen through example of today’s military training, is deficient. To remedy this, the book returns to an understanding of the honorable good, especially manifested for philosophers like Aristotle and Cicero in a life of the human virtues. However, because honor as defined by the honorable good needs to be applicable to the 21st Century occidental world of liberal democratic values, the study includes careful attention to those conditions under which honor can once again become a live option. While special attention is given to military training, including concrete proposals for its renewal, what the study discovers extends to many forms of human life