TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - From Charlottesville to the Nobel: political leaders and the morality of political honors
JO  - Ethics
A1  - Nili, Shmuel
SP  - 415
EP  - 445
VL  - 130
IS  - 3
N2  - Political honors are ubiquitous in public life, whether in the form of public monuments, street names, or national holidays. Yet such honors have received scant attention from normative political theorists. Tackling this gap, I begin by criticizing a desert-based approach to political honors. I then argue that morally appropriate honors are best understood as marking and reinforcing the moral commitments of the collective in whose name they are being awarded. I show how this thesis clarifies and organizes core intuitions regarding a variety of honors, from those commemorating slave-owning founders of the United States to the Nobel Peace Prize.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0014-1704
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/707215
ID  - ref1
ER  -