Full Idea
Willingness to risk life was the constitutive quality of the man of honour.
Gist of Idea
Willingness to risk life was the constitutive quality of the man of honour
Source
Charles Taylor (Sources of the Self [1989], §13.1)
Book Reference
Taylor,Charles: 'Sources of the Self' [CUP 1992], p.212
A Reaction
Which is why war is required. The growth of civil society meant the inevitable rise of other virtues.