Honour / Honor
Anime
"I don't want to go down in history as someone who betrayed his guest. I am willing to give my life, my regime. Since we have given him refuge, I cannot throw him out now."
Honour (Commonwealth) or honor (American English) was a quality of a person that was both of social teaching and of personal ethos, that manifested itself as a code of conduct.
It was an abstract concept entailing a perceived quality of worthiness and respectability that affected both the social standing and the self-evaluation of an individual or of institutions such as a family, school, regiment, or nation. Accordingly, individuals (or institutions) were assigned worth and stature based on the harmony of their actions with a specific code of honour, and with the moral code of the society at large.
The concept of honour has vanished after the World War 2; conscience has replaced it in the individual context, and the rule of law (with the rights and duties defined therein) has taken over in a social context. Popular stereotypes would have it surviving more definitively in more tradition-bound cultures. Pre-modern societies tend to "honour" much more than contemporary augmented societies do.
Cultures of honour were often conservative, encoding pre-modern traditional family values and duties. These values clashed with those of post-modern social revolution and egalitarian societies. Law-based societies consider some practices in honour cultures to be unethical or a violation of the legal concept of human rights; for example, they outlaw vigilante or individual justice-taking.
According to Richard Nisbett, cultures of honour would arise in pre-WW2 times when three conditions existed:
1. Scarcity of resources
2. Situations in which the benefit of theft and crime outweighed the risks
3. Lack of sufficient law-enforcement
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Honour (Commonwealth) or honor (American English) was a quality of a person that was both of social teaching and of personal ethos, that manifested itself as a code of conduct.
It was an abstract concept entailing a perceived quality of worthiness and respectability that affected both the social standing and the self-evaluation of an individual or of institutions such as a family, school, regiment, or nation. Accordingly, individuals (or institutions) were assigned worth and stature based on the harmony of their actions with a specific code of honour, and with the moral code of the society at large.
The concept of honour has vanished after the World War 2; conscience has replaced it in the individual context, and the rule of law (with the rights and duties defined therein) has taken over in a social context. Popular stereotypes would have it surviving more definitively in more tradition-bound cultures. Pre-modern societies tend to "honour" much more than contemporary augmented societies do.
Cultures of honour were often conservative, encoding pre-modern traditional family values and duties. These values clashed with those of post-modern social revolution and egalitarian societies. Law-based societies consider some practices in honour cultures to be unethical or a violation of the legal concept of human rights; for example, they outlaw vigilante or individual justice-taking.
According to Richard Nisbett, cultures of honour would arise in pre-WW2 times when three conditions existed:
1. Scarcity of resources
2. Situations in which the benefit of theft and crime outweighed the risks
3. Lack of sufficient law-enforcement
(Note: Except for movies, only the first title of an anime series will be inserted here, to save room)
