Veneration for Honor

Globalization, development of technology, rapidly changeable environment have established the values of their own. It has become almost impossible to understand moral feelings and relevant behavior. Certain part of the society is marked with spiritual poverty, impairment or negligence of moral values; violence, cruelty, dishonorable acts, indifference towards humans, egoistic intentions and criminal behavior prevail. At schools and families, youngsters are not provided with the teachings on morality, methods of self-management and behavior management. For that reason, young people do not have a full-fledged approach to moral norms and categories. They have difficulties in telling apart valuable and valueless, true and false, right and wrong. Therefore, the research problem of the present article is to determine the essence of honor from the 21 st  century viewpoint and what ways and means are needed to restore and maintain it among the members of society. The article deals with and analyzes the opinions of such outstanding public figures and thinkers on the concept of honor and dignity as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, William Shakespeare, Lao Tzu, Carl Rogers, Kwame Anthony Appiah, J. Hasley, Iakob Tsurtaveli, Shota Rustaveli, King-poet Archili, Ioane Bagrationi, Ilia Chavchavadze, Grigol Orbeliani, Vazha Pshavela.