Regard-based sanctioning disciplines behavior through opinion while affirming virtue

Evidence

But the most striking possibility for a non-alienating form of sanctioning is asssociated with the reward of people’s good opinion, and with the penalty of their bad opinion; such a regard-based form of sanctioning, which operates in an essentially non-intentional way—as if by an intangible hand—can discipline agents while communicating a positive image of their virtue. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1282

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘regard-based sanctioning’ as a distinct mechanism operating non-intentionally, like Smith’s invisible hand but through social esteem.
• QUESTION: How does regard-based sanctioning scale beyond small communities where reputation is trackable — does it break down in anonymous modern states?
• XREF: connects to: Ethical persuasion frameworks smuggle in unexamined standards of what counts as good — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 411; Reflexive personal trust becomes trust in tact and disciplined self-presentation — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 255; Social recognition of virtue is a precondition for ethical action in Muslim societies (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Reflexive personal trust becomes trust in tact and disciplined self-presentation #expands (0.82) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 255
• Social recognition of virtue is a precondition for ethical action in Muslim societies #corroborates (0.80)
• Ethical persuasion frameworks smuggle in unexamined standards of what counts as good #complicates (0.78) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 411
• Civil-servant honor substitutes discipline for individual moral responsibility #complicates (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 94