{"id":1228,"date":"2020-06-29T10:53:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T15:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2020-06-29T10:55:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T15:55:05","slug":"ethics-and-peer-like-qualities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2020\/06\/29\/ethics-and-peer-like-qualities\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics and Peer-like Qualities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I started playing in the SCA in Northshield, and one of the pieces of the standard peerage ceremony there is the Peerage Admonishments\/Admonitions &#8211; a listing of qualities that a peer should possess. Usually, these are read by members of the populace, popping up among the assemblage to read from a small slip of paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the person who got me into the SCA, Mistress Orlaith, was elevated to the laurel, Master Ingus arranged them into a chant which still brings tears to my eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gf3JJrK51KM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>Recorded by the most excellent Viscountess\/Mistress Elashava bas Riva<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>A Peer must seek excellence in all endeavors, not for their own<br> good, but for the good of others.<br> A Peer must always seek justice, truth tempered with mercy.<br> A Peer must remain loyal to the people and the ideals they<br> choose to live by.<br> A Peer must always defend their kingdom, their family and<br> those who depend upon them.<br> A Peer must have the courage to sacrifice for the precepts and<br> people they value.<br> A Peer must have faith in their beliefs.<br> A Peer values the contributions of others and does not boast of<br> their own accomplishments.<br> A Peer must be generous as far as their resources allow.<br> A Peer recognizes that true nobility arises from the journey, not<br> the destination. <\/p><cite><a href=\"http:\/\/northshield.org\/Resources\/PDF\/Heraldry\/Boke_of_Ceremony_v4.pdf\">Northshield Boke of Ceremonies<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no official &#8220;list&#8221; of peer-like qualities that any kingdom or peer can point to that I am aware of. My understanding is that, rooted in the concept of chivalric\/medieval Christian virtues, these qualities are, for the most part, basic human decency &#8211; qualities that we see in numerous cultures, reflected in religious and and other ideological writings. It is the fact that these qualities transcend culture that I want to shed light on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a number of lists of chivalric virtues, or virtues from the medieval Christian church, which we could hold up to the SCA&#8217;s nebulous list of peer-like qualities\/virtues to find an analogue, but I want to go beyond the Christian Normative view of these and look at other faiths and teachings within period to find how the SCA virtues align with those philosophies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I might, in future, write a series of posts looking at various concepts in Judaism (my religion), what commonalities can be found in the teachings of Confucius, and how PLQs are a reflection of both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than wax philosophical about this any further, I think I&#8217;ll just put gather up quotes and citations for us all to ruminate on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow: this is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.&#8221; <\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hillel_the_Elder\">Hillel the Elder<\/a><em> (110 BCE &#8211; 10 CE), <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sefaria.org\/Shabbat.31a.6?lang=bi&amp;with=all&amp;lang2=en\">Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 31a<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;Do to others what you want them to do to you. This is the meaning of the law of Moses and the teaching of the prophets.&#8221; <\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/verse\/en\/Matthew%207:12\">Matthew 7:12<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;None of you [truly] believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.&#8221;<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/ahadith.co.uk\/hadithwithcommentary.php?id=453\">An-Nawawi&#8217;s Forty Hadith 13<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others.&#8221;<\/p><cite> Confucius (551 BCE\u2013479 BCE), <a href=\"https:\/\/ctext.org\/analects\/wei-ling-gong\">The Analects, Section 15, No. 24<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;Those acts that you consider good when done to you, do those to others, none else.&#8221;<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/AitareyataittiriyaUpanishadsWithShankaraBhashya-English\/05AitareyataittiriyaUpanishadsWithShankaraBhashya-English#page\/n95\/mode\/2up\">Taittiriya Upanishad<\/a> (Shikshavalli, Eleventh Anuvaka)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;And do nothing that you would not like to see him do,<br>&#8216;Cause that monster in the mirror, he just might be you.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Grover (1970 CE &#8211; ), <em><a href=\"https:\/\/muppet.fandom.com\/wiki\/Monster_in_the_Mirror\">The Monster in the Mirror<\/a><\/em>, 1989<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And do nothing that you would not like to see him do, &#8216;Cause that monster in the mirror, he just might be you.&#8221; &#8211; Grover<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64],"tags":[555,125,96],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4eTPU-jO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}