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.

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从夏洛茨维尔到诺贝尔奖：政治领袖和政治荣誉的道德

政治荣誉在公共生活中无处不在，无论是以公共纪念碑、街道名称还是国定假日的形式。然而，这些荣誉很少受到规范政治理论家的关注。为了解决这一差距，我首先批评了一种基于沙漠的政治荣誉方法。然后我认为，道德上适当的荣誉最好被理解为标志着和加强集体的道德承诺，他们以他们的名义被授予。我展示了这篇论文如何澄清和组织关于各种荣誉的核心直觉，从纪念美国奴隶拥有的创始人到诺贝尔和平奖。