what is honor?

Question

what are some examples of honor? what is it? what is one aspect of honor?

Answer 1

Being honorable means:
Being trustworthy
Having integrity
Honesty
Keeping your word

Answer 2

Examples Of Honor

Answer 3

Honorable means being true to your beliefs. Or a system of beliefs followed by the organization you are in. (Example, the Marine Corps.) Honorable means doing the right thing when it may put you at risk. (Personal and professional.) Honor is a personal thing, and means many different things to many different people. The terrorists think it is honorable to get killed taking out innocent people. A soldier may jump on a grenade to protect his buddies, and end up with a CMH. (Congressional Medal of HONOR.) Honor can not be catagorized, except in a group of people bound by a certain code. What is honorable (i.e. in Japan it was honorable to commit suicide for certain reasons.) in one culture, is anathema in others. (Catholics who commit suicide are belived to go straight to hell, and may not be buried in holy ground.) Honor is a matter of the heart and the mind. Honor is doing the right thing, all the time, and not just when it is convienient.

Answer 4

Honor implies a definate respect and admiration for a person or persons for deeds or traits that the person(s) have displayed. It imparts a degree of reverence. In modern times however this term and it's equivolents are greatly misused. I hope that helps.

Example: Martin Luther King was greatly honored throughout the world for his "nonviolent" approach to civil rights.

Answer 5

Honor is the result of the successful defense -or salvatage, depending on the circumstances- of one's pride, which curiously enough has a euphemism, 'honor'. Thus, it is of a circular existence, upheld, like most other abstactions that designate many cultural counterparts of our somewhat subdued instinctual life, by consensed-upon precepts (i.e., 'pride' as a universal symbolic consequence of survival, constructed by culturally acceptable forms of symbolic survival or, occasionally, victory). Thus, exhibited among the right set of people, it generates feelings of impotance and value within he who exhibits it.
In other words, the circularity and self-dependance of it combined with its social importance make it yet another monkey to feed.
An example coherent with these two aspects of it are the attitude and behavior towards women in two arbitrary groups, say a monastery on the one hand and a group of teenage friends on the other; both of these groups do have two things in common, the emotional closeness of its members and the more or less symmetrical quality of their relationships. In one group, celibacy protects, upholds and even highlights honor, while in the other group, celibacy might be looked upon as a stigma, a burden on the social life and degree of self importance in he who unfortunately observes it.

You asked for examples, plural, yet I have only given one, and to prove a point, at that. Reason is, I am sure you will receive many examples. I chose to focus more on the social use and involvement of honor.

Answer 6

honor is a more formal form of respect with various requirements and actions that a person has to perform to maintain respect. many times it takes the form of a code of conduct.

things honor can be translated to:
self respect
dignity
morality
integrity

in several ancient cultures there were certain ideals and values that the ideal citizen of that culture should have. the warrior and the ruling classes were expected to live those values every day. thus, the concept of honor developed.

Answer 7

Honour is an all-embracing word used to cover the attributes that individuals need to tie them into a group, and to assist the group in its aims. Examples would be being true to one's word, keeping secrets, acting bravely to defend the group against outside threats. People who act dishonourably have generally let down a group, or helped an enemy or an outsider. Honour is widely valued in government and the military. Senates and Parliaments value honour above all else (even honesty, as telling lies would be classed as dishonourable). An army's severest threat (after death) would be a dishonourable discharge.

Answer 8

Honor is when you know you've done something right, something truely amazing, for the greater good of the group. It's when you sacrifice your sleep, your dreams, your body to the things your troup needs. It's when you give up fighting for yourself, and begin to fight for everyone else. Honor is the pride you have when you finally get to lay down for rest at night, knowing that your people are safe and that you've done everything in your power to protect them. That's honor.

Answer 9

What is honor, honor is have the courage to be who you really are and never betraying others no matter what.
Doing what needs to be done despite the consequences.

Answer 10

Honor is fairness, open mindedness, compassion, understanding; forgiveness, and acceptance, just to name a few aspects.