Shame, αἰδώς, is what is felt by a man who fails to perform his allotted role.

Shame, αἰδώς, is what is felt by a man who fails to perform his allotted role. To feel shame is simply to be aware that you have entitled people to accuse you of having fallen short of that which the socially established description both you and others had applied to yourself had led them to expect. It is to be aware that one is liable to reproach. This whole family of concepts, then, presupposes a certain sort of social order, characterized by a recognized hierarchy of functions.

It is noteworthy that the value predicates can only be applied to those men who fall under the…