C. Taylor’s scientific contributions

... "Honor" relates both to an internal quality (something like "virtue" or "integrity") and to the external evaluation of this quality (something like "reputation") (Abu-Lughod 1986;Appiah 2011;Pitt-Rivers 1977;Stewart 1994). The eighteenth-century philosophes -who produced the first abundant literature on the subject-sought to distinguish the false attractions of mere reputation from the true virtue of inward honor (LaVaque-Manty 2006;Taylor 1994). Late twentieth-century accounts influenced by a grand narrative of modernization saw this polysemy instead as the mark of a historical shift in European understandings of the person: a progressive internalization of honor, which leads to its eventual obsolescence and replacement by "dignity." ...

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French Law, Danish Cartoons, and the Anthropology of Free Speech