The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780393071627 (0393071626)
Publish date: September 13th 2010
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 264
Edition language: English
How do moral revolutions happen? Dueling, foot-binding, slavery and “honor” killings were once considered honorable practices but today most people find them repellent. In THE HONOR CODE Appiah analyzes these four examples to illustrate how traditional beliefs about honor came to be in sharp contras...