'In Defence of Honour'

Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen, interviewed by Julian Baggini at TPM Online.

#Honor

VW’s Reputation Crisis Likely to End Badly

Nir Kossovsky at Risk & Insurance,

"While courts of law may not send corporations to jail for criminal offenses, courts of public opinion — read, stakeholders — may jail them figuratively for a variety of offenses that impact reputation: ethics, innovation, quality, safety, sustainability and security.

"The common thread for all six of these offenses is gross disappointment, the progenitor of reputation damage. ..."

From the Center: Reardon on Honor, Adler on Idea, E. O. Wilson on Man.

This past week's communications to members of the Center for the Study of The Great Ideas included: Center Member James Reardon's exploration of the Great Idea of Honor in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus; Mortimer Adler on the Idea as on of the Great Ideas; and an invitation to comment on a review of E. O. Wilson's most recent book.

From the Center: Montaigne's Essays; The Great Idea of Honor;

This past week's communications to members of the Center for the Study of The Great Ideas included:

• Mortimer Adler on the Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Dr. Adler's work selecting and introducing them for the Franklin Library’s 100 Greatest Books of All Time series, information about the discussion of selected Essays in the Great Ideas Program series, and finding the Essays on-line; and
• Dr. Adler on The Great Idea of Honor.

An additional online edition of Montaigne's Essays is at the University of Adelaide. It happens the topic of honor is explicit in the essays titled 'Not to Communicate a Man’s Honour', Book the First, Essay 41, and 'Of Recompenses of Honour', Book the Second, Essay 7. There are numerous references to the Essays under Honor in the Syntopicon.