Metamorphoses of Honor during the Enlightenment
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Abstract
The following pages will analyze the polemical redefining of honor carried out in the wake of the feudal system. Preserving it from a commerce-driven order by making it a principal of monarchy (Montesquieu), reinterpreting it as «emulation» in a republican perspective (Rousseau) or desubstantiating it and making it the mere name for that which is valued by «opinion» (Hobbes, Mandeville): these three major strategies are made apparent hereafter.
Keywords
- Honor
- Emulation
- Recognition/Acknowledgment
- Hobbes
- Mandeville
- Montesquieu
- Rousseau
