re: [Mid] "Earning" a peerage

Avery writes:
>
>> "Well, I've been in the SCA for a year now, so where's my AOA?" If you are
>> trying to set a standard for peerage qualities, then any statement about
>> "earning a peerage" may undo any plan for using peerages as "exemplars."
>
>The concept "exemplars" is kinda linked, at least in my mind, to another
>concept: Platonic objects.
>
>How does a chair get to be a chair? No one grants it chairness in a lavish
>ceremony with the king and queen (or would it be sofa and love seat?). It's
>just recognized as a chair because it has chair like qualities which reflect
>those of the ideal chair (or so Plato argued - and hey, I paid good money for
>those philosophy classed and I'm gonna use 'em!).
>
>But peers don't spring fully formed out of the head of Zeus. They become
>peers
>over time. "Earn" seems like the logical verb to describe their development.
>

ya azzunish! Permit me to disagree. "Earning" implies payment for
services rendered, and if that is so, then what is the price of peerage?

salaam, durr

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