On 25 Sep, 12:54, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Yes inded Pat I can readily agree, yet what is it, what does it mean
> to have honour?
>
To be considered trustworthy and to have integrity, I would say.
Also, there's a certain kind of 'honour' associated with social
status, but I expect THAT would be nullified by a fair deity and only
one's trustworthiness/integrity would be considered one's 'honour' in
God's eyes.
> What can be gained, what feelings are equated with it, what makes an
> act honourable? Is it equated with morality?
>
Honour is what people had before laws. One would be expected to act
honourably, i.e., if they gave their word, one would expect an
honourable individual to keep it and a dishonourable person to not
keep it. Then, we moved to having laws and people could act 'legally'
whether or not that was honourable or not. As honour is a cultural
thing it is more equated with ethics than morals, which are personal,
in my opinion. What makes an act honourable is whether or not it fits
in with the local 'code of honour'. It would be dishonourable for a
chivalrous knight (chivalry being a code of honour) to rape, whereas
it would have been perfectly honourable (and expected!) to a Viking in
the midst of plunder.
> On 25 Sep, 12:48, Pat <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
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> > On 25 Sep, 12:13, Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > It seems an easy enough question. What is it, what does it mean to
> > > have it, what acts are honourable and what not?
>
> > It mostly depends on culture. It was honourable to the Aztecs to be
> > sacrificed to Quetzalcoatl, I doubt many today would feel the same.
> > Thieves, at one time, had a code of conduct, making some theiving
> > honourable and other thieving not honourable. Seppuku (harakiri) is
> > considered honourable in Japanese culture, but viewed as simple
> > suicide and damnable by the West. Roughly, honour (like good and
> > evil) is, like its opposite, shame, an opinion/perception and is
> > relative.- Hide quoted text -
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