The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen

How does moral progress happen? How are societies brought to repudiate immoral customs they have long accepted? In The Honor Code, Kwame Anthony Appiah explores a long-neglected engine of reform. Examining moral revolutions in the past--and campaigns against abhorrent practices today--he shows that appeals to reason, morality, or religion aren´t enough to ring in reform. Practices are eradicated only when they come into conflict with honor.