Why Honor Matters

By: Tamler Sommers

Narrated by: Tamler Sommers

Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

A controversial call to put honor at the center of morality

To the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric. It evokes Hamilton and Burr and pistols at dawn, not visions of a well-organized society. But for philosopher Tamler Sommers, a sense of honor is essential to living moral lives. In Why Honor Matters, Sommers argues that our collective rejection of honor has come at great cost. Reliant only on Enlightenment liberalism, the United States has become the home of the cowardly, the shameless, the selfish, and the alienated. Properly channeled, honor encourages virtues like courage, integrity, and solidarity, and gives a sense of living for something larger than oneself. Sommers shows how honor can help us address some of society's most challenging problems, including education, policing, and mass incarceration. Counterintuitive and provocative, Why Honor Matters makes a convincing case for honor as a cornerstone of our modern society.

©2018 Tamler Sommers. (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

I learned a lot

As many good books do, it detailed and put into context something I kind of already knew. I appreciate how the book was nuanced and balanced. Not all or nothing.

good content, narration sorta rough

pretty good listen. Many good points, A few chapters dragged (7 was the worst, repetition). Definitely needed a professional narrator though. Too bad.

Engaging and thought provoking

Fans of the podcast Very bad wizards will here find a much stronger argumentation for the virtue of honour than what has been presented in the podcast. The extra time the author has to flesh out his arguments and to present them in a more coherent way makes this an extremely interesting read.

I am grateful that you didn't give up

wierd people need to hear thid message....thankyou for the work
honor is a key to binding society's together

Outstanding read on a undervalued topic in America

Having met Tamler in person and now having read one of his books on honor, I'm extremely thankful for his contributions to an incredibly relevant topic. The depth of his understanding of character and honor mixed with his his humor and ability to tell a good story makes this work easy to understand and internalize.

A critical, yet seemingly impossible, topic!

Professor Sommers did a marvelous job explaining "honor," which is a seemingly natural-occurring phenomenon among all cultures in the world. And somehow he's able to talk about difficult moral phenomena in both a dispassionate but incredibly interesting way.

This was a great read and the audio-version (which he read himself) is fantastic as well.

Easy to listen, great content

Tamler narrates very well imo. Any listener who enjoys VeryBadWizards will enjoy it for sure.

Repugnant,

This book is really good, I would go so far as to say this book is important. Tamler Sommers succeeds to write the rare kind of philosophy that is equal parts thought provoking and a pleasure to read. It does what it says on the cover, whether you come away still critical of honour cultures, you cant come away continuing to believe that honour doesnt matter.

I think honour might be operating just as widely within WEIRD cultures as in cultures with explicit honour codes . Yet we pretend that it doesnt matter. I love the way that framing things like refugee intake and the death penalty as honour issues gives you compelling moral arguments to motivate people to care about those issues in a bipartisan way.

I think this book makes better sense of our current climate than Johhathan Haidts book on the righteous mind, it at least complements it.

Tamler is right Honour matters and more books should be written about it.

Even Tamlers Reading performance is really good and you can hardly tell he is drunk for most of it.

fascinating portrayal of our society astray

Dr. Sommers narrates his well researched book on honor. He gives both extensive background and examples of how honor can and should return as a foundation of our society. One feels at times back in college and listening to your favorite lecturer, enthralled by every word. But his book goes so much further than the campus coffee shop. I only wish I had the chance to discuss the many thought provoking topics with the author himself.

Philosophy for modern problems

Tamler breaks down a topic, which could be risky, in the wrong hands. He takes both sides of the argument seriously and really sees both sides of his argument. This is a great read/listen if you want to see/hear where modern philosophy is going.