Honour and Pride
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"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
Pride, in human psychology, a feeling of pleasure related to self-worth and often derived from personal achievements or talents, desirable possessions, or membership in an ethnic, religious, gender, social, political, or professional community or organization, among other associations. Pride can be related to feelings of self-respect, confidence, satisfaction, and self-worth. When one has some level of admiration for other people or groups with whom one has some connection or affiliation—such as friends or relatives, fellow community members, or hometown sports teams—one can be said to be proud of them.
People who boast about their own achievements or some aspect of themselves, such as their physical appearance (excessive pride in which can be thought of as vanity), are said to have too much pride, or to be prideful. In that sense, pride can be related to conceit.
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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
Pride, in human psychology, a feeling of pleasure related to self-worth and often derived from personal achievements or talents, desirable possessions, or membership in an ethnic, religious, gender, social, political, or professional community or organization, among other associations. Pride can be related to feelings of self-respect, confidence, satisfaction, and self-worth. When one has some level of admiration for other people or groups with whom one has some connection or affiliation—such as friends or relatives, fellow community members, or hometown sports teams—one can be said to be proud of them.
People who boast about their own achievements or some aspect of themselves, such as their physical appearance (excessive pride in which can be thought of as vanity), are said to have too much pride, or to be prideful. In that sense, pride can be related to conceit.
(Note: Except for movies, only the first title of an anime series will be inserted here, to save room)
