Re: Honor and Shame You understanding is interesting, I don't know nearly enough to answer but it seems as if both view points are buried in the visa versa.
Even when you talk of honour in the East there is still law, a kind of law that shames you if you do something wrong, the punishment is from the community and it is the same thing we have in the west but we talk about it differently calling it reputation.
In the west we have notorious criminals that have honour through one way or another, daring fears or bare arsed cheek in robbery and we celebrate them. think about robbin hood.
I'm not sure it's a clearly divided and I'm pretty sure each system feeds each of the other systems in play in complex ways. perhaps after all they are just two different ways of looking at the same human nature. |