Tag: Honor

• August 21, 2015

  A Defense of Boasting

  We now have a very low estimation of boasters. They are loud-mouthed, arrogant, sometimes self-deceiving, and, while boasting especially, very inconsiderate of others. Such a level of self-importance disgusts us, the non-boasters. We have the presumption that those who are properly confident have no need to speak of themselves, let alone to sing their own…