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Debt: The First 5000 Years (Audiobook) David Graeber

Notus & Friends

CHAPTER

The History of Honor

The concept of honor can be treated as a kind of artifact, or even as a hieroglyphic. It seems to compress into itself the answer to almost everything we've been trying to understand. The transition from one to the other provides the best clue to how debts emerge from obligations. Reconstructing this history reveals how much our basic concepts of freedom and morality took shape within institutions such as slavery.

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