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#126 Nancy Sherman: Soldiers and Stoics

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Do They Tie Honor and Glory to Virtue?

Aristotle said honour depends on other people, and they may give it to you on false grounds. The story really is that goodness is virtue, or virtue is wisdom. And that something like honor glory are very derivative. In the best case, they follow on your virtue,. Like your virtue is honourable. You might say, that's an honourable person and an old but that's a kind of old fashioned meaning of honorable. Often it meansoh, that person has a lot of rank. That person got a lot o a lot of medals. Your worth has to do with something much different.

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