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Long neglected as an engine of reform, honor strikingly emerges at the center of our modern world in Kwame Anthony Appiah's The Honor Code. Over the last few centuries, new democratic movements have led to the emancipation of women, slaves, and the oppressed. But what drove these modern changes, Appiah argues, was not imposing legislation from above, but harnessing the ancient power of honor from within. In gripping detail, he explores the end of the duel in aristocratic England, the tumultuous
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- Author
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393080711
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Philosophy
- Rating
- 3.36 / 5 (421 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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