Browsing by Subject "Honor"

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The honor motive in international relations
(2013-05) Ofek, Hillel; Trubowitz, Peter
This report aims to broaden the horizon of research questions in international relations by encouraging a greater appreciation for the complexity of individual and collective motivations. More specifically, the report focuses on why the honor motive is ignored in the discipline and why it deserves more attention.
Marriage, bigamy, and the Inquisition : power and gender relations in seventeenth-century New Spain
(2016-05) Rubino, Samantha Rose; Deans-Smith, Susan, 1953-; Hsrdwick, Julie
“Marriage, Bigamy, and the Inquisition” explores the formation and dissolution of intimate marital partnerships in seventeenth-century colonial Mexico. This report is a preliminary investigation into the formation and regulation of family life through the language of lived experience depicted in bigamy cases from the Inquisition. The trials of María de Figueroa, Juan de Lizarzaburo, Baltasar Márques Palomino, Mariana Monroy, and Pedro de Valenzuela depict the way in which the accused, their family/witnesses, and the court contested what family meant during inquisitorial interrogation. In other words, this report examines the application of marriage law to these specific family histories and the accused bigamists’ interpretation of what they deemed acceptable within Spanish society. In order to accomplish this analysis, this paper focuses on four key elements of marriage and family construction: 1) mala vida; 2) power relations between men and women; 3) the role of race and honor; and 4) the role of the Inquisition as an institution and site of debate about family.
Thumos in Aristotle’s Politics
(2009-12) Morgan, Dorothy Lam; Pangle, Thomas L.; Stauffer, Devin
Recent interest and scholarship in the role of emotions in politics provide an opportunity for revisiting the idea of ancient Greek thumos as understood by Aristotle. In Aristotle’s Politics, thumos is a capacity of the soul for affection; it is most clearly seen in anger and righteous indignation; and it is indispensable for understanding the nature of politics. Aristotle shows that thumos motivates political actions that can be beneficial as well as destructive to the city. This ambivalence has an enormous impact on what is possible or desirable in political life and raises important questions about the extent to which thumos should be cultivated in society and in individuals.