ABSTRACT
We are not surprised, therefore, to find that comment on honor and shame is pervasive in the literature of antiquity. Xenophon, for example, tells us that
In this man differs from other animals-I mean in this craving for honor. In meat and drink and sleep and sex all creatures alike seem to take pleasure; but love of honor is rooted in neither the brute beasts nor in every human being. But in them in whom is planted a passion for honor and praise, these are those who differ most from beasts of the field, these are accounted men and not mere human beings.
