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The Meaning of Honor for Honors Students and Programs

The Meaning of Honor for Honors Students and Programs. Dr. Nancy Stanlick UCF Department of Philosophy Burnett Honors College Family Weekend October 21, 2006. The Full Meaning of Honor?. High Achievement Sufficient for entrance Promise of Continued Achievement To be worthy of honor

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The Meaning of Honor for Honors Students and Programs

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  1. The Meaning of Honor for Honors Students and Programs Dr. Nancy Stanlick UCF Department of Philosophy Burnett Honors College Family Weekend October 21, 2006

  2. The Full Meaning of Honor? • High Achievement • Sufficient for entrance • Promise of Continued Achievement • To be worthy of honor • An Active Moral Notion • Getting and Giving • Appearance and Reality • Passing and Passing

  3. Community Membership • Acceptance and Membership • Benefits and Obligations • Create, sustain community • What Kind of Community? • Personal and intellectual excellence • What Kind of Person? • Academic and Moral Exemplar

  4. “Honor” Expanded • Two Meanings • Descriptive – high status • Prescriptive – moral approval • An Example: • Citizen and Visitor • Citizen Voter • Aristotle and the Severed Hand • Homonomous meaning

  5. Personal and Civic Friendship in Community • Aristotle on Friendship • Utility, Pleasure, Virtue • A Limitation of this View • Hundreds of People, Anonymity • Overcoming the Limitation • Part of a Community • A common Purpose, Goal • Shared Characteristics • To BE a Member of the Community

  6. Concluding Thoughts • The honors student is not honored or “honorable” simply for academic attainment. Honor, more completely understood, is granted by others, and warranted within oneself, as recognition of a way of living or being that maintains one’s status as a member of an honors community.

  7. Conclusion Continued • Honors colleges and their students are uniquely capable of creating and maintaining academic communities of honor and integrity because they are persons of personal and academic excellence.

  8. Conclusion Continued • A community of honor is constituted by people who understand their relationships with each other to be exemplifications of Aristotelian virtue and civil friendship. To be an honors student is more than a description. An honors student is a moral exemplar in the academic community.

  9. References • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Books I-III, VIII-IX. • Nancy A. Stanlick, “Creating an Honors Community: A Virtue Ethics Approach,” Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, Spring/Summer 2006 (7, 1): 75-92.

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