How Has Honor Changed Over Time

The definition of honor is something that can’t be defined. When people talk about honor you may be able come up with a few things, but the definition of honor changes between people. Over time honor has changed, and throughout the world the definition of honor is skewed. All definitions have some similarities, but none are the same. All through time honor has been used in many ways to describe a man, but what honor means has changed throughout the world and throughout time. Honor can be defined many ways and can’t be given one definition. In an article written by a journalist for New York The Sun, Shalin Punn about James Bowman and his book Honor: A History, he states about honor “the concept of honor has been subject to a "change in meaning,"

In an article written by a journalist for New York The Sun, Shalin Punn about James Bowman and his book Honor: A History, he states about honor in the past “In its most primitive sense, what Mr. Bowman labels "reflexive honor," it was that instinctive desire "not to lose face." If someone hit me, I would hit him back, and in doing so I would have been defending my honor” (Bowman). First this shows honor has changed over time because people define honor in a less primitive way now. As well as this definition has been built on and changed as time went on. In light of honor changing, over the years the definition of honor may have been skewed to fit the time, in modern culture honor can be defined as a man’s integrity. A modern day blog by a Brett McKay defines honor as “Honor=integrity is the point to which the definition of honor has evolved and what it generally means in our society today” (McKay). This modern definition of honor ties together integrity and honor because without integrity you can’t have honor. Identically someone with great integrity will always do the right thing, the selfless thing, to help

In a book written by Samuel Johnson in 1755 he defines honor as "nobility of soul, magnanimity, and a scorn of meanness” (Johnson). People may say that this still applies today to the modern world because honor could be staying the same while the people are what is changing. Conversely this isn’t true because honor has just changed through time, but it has also changed between cultures. With this in mind honor has never been one definition. In an article written by a journalist for New York The Sun, Shalin Punn about James Bowman and his book Honor: A History, he states “honor still exists in more developed forms, in "honor groups," like the "family or the military," where we do have a "code" of honor which creates a "mini-honor culture”(Bowman). In other words he says that honor exists in a more developed form, changing over time. Furthermore honor may be based off of an idea, but it has been developing over time into something