I provide a framework for honor, descriptions and conditions of the form that honor codes take, and the typical directions that they assume: the nature of an honor code; its relationship to identity and self-worth; the emotional reactions fulfilling and violating an honor code produce; the phenomena of losing and regaining honor; the ways honor codes may be infringed; and how members of honor groups may react when one of their peers transgresses against an imperative of their shared code. The content of a system of honor is provided by the specific values, principles, and norms that a particular honor code embraces and celebrates. I then distinguish self-respect from pride and from arrogance, claiming that merited pride or enhanced self-respect is a reward for fulfilling the imperatives, principles, and norms of an honor code. I consider the question whether honor codes are obsolete, the remnants of patriarchal oppression and toxic masculinity that reflect a world properly transcended. Sketching a case in favor of honor, I invoke the individual-community continuum and advance philosophical analyses of achieving meaning in human life and exercising will to power. I argue that commitment to honor can soften the tension between our need to connect with others and our uneasiness that doing so will suffocate our identity, while facilitating meaning and purpose in our lives, as well as offering an outlet for exerting will to power. Finally, I conjure a dialogue between Spada, a representative of honor, and Cicogna, a representative of piety, that calls into question and critically examines some of my earlier assertions.