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Honor in America?
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In a fine and unusually comprehensive analysis of honor in Tocqueville, Laurie Johnson shows how Tocqueville understood the sense of honor to shape American life in domains ranging from politics, business, and the military to family, religion, and race relations. The book makes an effective case for the continuing value of honor in liberal democratic societies today, and helps us envision a uniquely American code of honor attuned to the demands of our contemporary times.
Laurie M. Johnson
Lexington Books
Dec, 2016
9780739190487
85,398
Philosophy--PoliticalPolitical Science--GeneralPolitical Science--Civics & CitizenshipPolitical Science--History & TheoryPolitical Science--Political Ideologies / Democracy
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Honor in America?
Preface
Honor in America?
This book is the third in a series of books I have written on the development of liberal thought and how it impacts honor (the other two are Thomas Hobbes: Turning Point for Honor; Locke, Rousseau and the Enlightenment’s Answer to Honor). This third book will become a part of a new series I am co-editing with Dan Demetriou entitled Honor and Obligation in Liberal...
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Introduction
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What is honor? There is some confusion surrounding the definition of honor because it has internal and external expressions. In its internal expression, honor has to do with self-image, and can be distinguished from modern morality,...
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1 - American Enlightenment Religion
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Tocqueville thought that the extraordinary power of religion in America was made possible by the separation of church and state. Established religions would inevitably become too associated with corrupt politics and lose their spiritual influence. Every American pastor he encountered agreed on that insight, and he noted that...
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2 - Tocqueville on Honor
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Whereas volume one of Democracy in America discusses in great detail American government and politics, volume two contains Tocqueville’s analysis of American society and culture in similar detail. There is a change in tone as well as in analytical level, as Tocqueville explores the “nonobvious,...
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3 - Democratic Honor
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Tocqueville thinks that modern liberal democracy has produced a type of family never before seen in human history—the nuclear family. The aristocratic family that was quickly becoming a relic was a much larger affair. It contained not only the nuclear family but extended family members and servants. Americans generally do not live with their extended family members, know them less well, do...
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4 - Aristocratic v. Democratic Honor
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In a 2014 showing of “Basetrack,” a multimedia production about a soldier’s experiences in Afghanistan and at home, the great divide between civilian and military notions of honor was clearly articulated by the main character AJ. He said that the Marine infantrymen had to generate among themselves a strong...
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5 - American Shame
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This chapter will explore three different areas where Tocqueville raises the motivation of honor in America very directly but also problematically. These three areas are politics, the situation of Native Americans, and the situation of white masters and their slaves in the American South. For reasons discussed below, none of these areas can serve as workable sources for an honor code for...
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Conclusion
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We live in an era in which the influence of religion has weakened in the West and morality is seen as relative to the individual, making both less available as a source of common ground. Hence I am interested in honor primarily as a source of self-control and social control. We also live in an era of ever increasing egalitarianism, but not necessarily increasing equality. There is no such thing as...
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Index
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African Americans,4.10 , 4.38 , 5.28 , 5.29 , 5.56 , 5.82 , 5.90 , 5.94 ,
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About the Author
Honor in America?
Laurie M. Johnson is a professor of political science specializing in political thought at Kansas State University. She directs the University’s Primary Texts Certificate program and teaches a variety of courses in political thought. She is the author of seven books, including Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretation of Realism; Hobbes’s...
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Series Page
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Honor and Obligation in Liberal Society: Problems and Prospects
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