Honour and Manliness By John Steele

     There is a new book by an academic philosopher giving a defence of the value of honour: Tamler Sommers, Why Honor Matters, (Basic Books, New York, 2018):
  https://www.amazon.com/Why-Honor-Matters-Tamler-Sommers/dp/0465098878 
  https://www.counter-currents.com/2018/06/a-very-honorable-man/

     The core argument, which runs contrary to what little treatment has been given to this topic by analytic style philosophers – not to ignore the worthy history of ideas treatment delivered by Harvey Mansfield in Manliness, (Yale University press, New haven, 2007): is simply, that honour matters, and has a place in the moral society, even today.
  https://www.amazon.com/Manliness-Harvey-C-Mansfield/dp/0300122543/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529380214&sr=1-2&keywords=manliness

     In Why Honor Matters,  Sommers bravely stands against the tide of liberal philosophy in the United States, which must be even more crushing than it is here in Australia, and takes the classic position that without honour societies degenerate into swamps of the cowardly, shameless and selfish. A sense of honour is a moral compass that guides a person to do that which is right and just, for the common wealth and good. It is a kind of moral conscience that regulates moral behaviour, standing behind the ends means rationality and utilitarian calculations that have come to dominate modern life.

     However, one should not get too excited, and this is why I am not buying the book, but relying on reviews to get a sense of it. The author still operates within the liberal-globalist framework, defending liberal immigration policies and openness to “refugees,” that is illegals. As the above review details, while making a case for the existence of honour, the author does not go very far at all, still clinging to a decaying liberal philosophical framework. Jack Donovan is miles better, and relates honour to the manly warrior virtues. That gets testosterone flowing in one’s veins, while modern philosophy, in general, is very oestrogenic. Put simply, philosophy is about sitting on one’s butt, a most unhealthy activity, that in the long run, can kill you:
  https://www.amazon.com.au/Way-Men-Jack-Donovan/dp/0985452307 
  https://strenuouslife.co 
  https://www.artofmanliness.com