The Honor Code

How Moral Revolutions Happen

Kwame Anthony Appiah (New York University)

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WW Norton & Co
07 October 2011

Ethics & moral philosophy; Ethical issues & debates

"In this groundbreaking work, Kwame Anthony Appiah, hailed as ""one of the most relevant philosophers today"" (New York Times Book Review), changes the way we understand human behavior and the way social reform is brought about. In brilliantly arguing that new democratic movements over the last century have not been driven by legislation from above, Appiah explores the end of the duel in aristocratic England, the tumultuous struggles over footbinding in nineteenth-century China, the uprising of ordinary people against Atlantic slavery, and the horrors of ""honor killing"" in contemporary Pakistan. Intertwining philosophy and historical narrative, he has created ""a fascinating study of moral evolution"" (Philadelphia Inquirer) that demonstrates the critical role honor plays a in the struggle against man's inhumanity to man."

By: Kwame Anthony Appiah (New York University)
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 142mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 295g
ISBN: 9780393340525
ISBN 10: 039334052X
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 07 October 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kwame Anthony Appiah, the president of the PEN American Center, is the author of The Ethics of Identity, Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy, The Honor Code, and the prize-winning Cosmopolitanism. Raised in Ghana and educated in England, he has taught philosophy on three continents and is currently a professor at Princeton University.

Reviews for The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen

Appiah lays out a concept that is not only compelling in its own right but also suggests a connection that may in time help to collate biological and cultural exploration of human morality. -- Edward O. Wilson, author of Sociobiology A deeply insightful exposition of the dangers, the potential and the (perhaps) ineradicable role of the human sense of honor. -- Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, McGill University This book is essential for us-inescapable in its urgent relevance to the embattled human morality we live within our codes of the present. -- Nadine Gordimer, author of Telling Times