#74: Roman Honor With Carlin Barton
The Art of Manliness
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The Role of Honor in the Life of the Romans
For the Romans of the Republic, there was almost no kind of official government. It was a little amateur government and it didn't reach very far. And it relied on a fear in a way of acute self-consciousness. The punishment for misbehaving, for acting shamefully was consciently. But because we rely on the eye of God or the kind of internalization of an authoritative eye, a surveilling eye, that consciousness became a positive and kind of eternal thing. This consciousness becomes the kind of Jiminy Cricket or this guardian of your morality.
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