Presenting Dignity, Honor, Respect & Glory.

For decades, much attention and an abundance of meanings have been attributed to human dignity, at the expense of its adjacent and antithetic notion, honor, which has been drained, neglected and ignored. The result is that we do not know (or at 3 least cannot agree on) what dignity means, because the term has been overwhelmed with too much meaning, and we do not know what honor is, because we no longer give it enough thought to form a clear sense. Worse still – we confuse the two, speaking of dignity as if it included all the defining components of honor. Under such circumstances, it is hard to consider an argument that builds on the bipolarity constituted by these two underlying values and the social norms built on them.