Books by Geoffrey Brennan & Philip Pettit
The Economy of Esteem
by Geoffrey Brennan & Philip Pettit
If you have an up-and-running economy of esteem, then when people do the right thing they get the respect of their friends and neighbours and if they do the wrong thing they get their contempt and disrespect. The great virtue of this is that if people have these attitudes then the thing is cheap to run because people spontaneously respond in these ways.
Interviews where books by Geoffrey Brennan & Philip Pettit were recommended
The best books on Honour, recommended by Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Princeton philosophy professor Kwame Anthony Appiah tells us about the meaning of honour, how it's won and lost, and what role it has played in the history of moral change.
