亚里士多德将荣誉视为最大的外在善，他在论述三种生活的分类时，指出荣誉由外在的授予者决定。在讨论灵魂宏大德性时认为荣誉是美德的奖赏，既然荣誉作为美德的奖赏，那么它就应该是取决于接受者自身内在德性的，而不是取决于授予者外在的授予。那么关于荣誉的来源问题，究竟是取决于授予者还是接受者。有学者认为荣誉作为一种外在的善，依赖他人授予，荣誉的获得具有不确定性。文章首先对《尼各马可伦理学》中的荣誉概念和荣誉概念产生的背景做了梳理，强调了荣誉对于古希腊人价值观的重要影响。其次分析了“荣誉是最大的外在善”命题，认为外在善并不能被简单地理解为相对于灵魂的外在，在分析三种善的分类时，发现外在善对幸福的影响是内在的。作为最大的外在善的荣誉，荣誉因自身的德性价值而对灵魂的影响更为内在。再次，辨析了“荣誉是美德的奖赏”，分析了荣誉的分配方式是配得，配得的分配方式是否公平。在配得的分配方式下，个体需要凭借自身的德性价值才能获得荣誉，其他的外在善也只有在作为德性生活的要素时才能发挥作用。最后，回到文本中的荣誉，从授予者、授予物和接受者三个角度分析荣誉，阐明对荣誉的追求分为本性意义上和偶性意义上的追求。肯定个体自身的内在德性是配得荣誉的根本，接受者对待荣誉的态度不是被动地接受，而是主动地追求。不能简单地将荣誉看作是取决于授予者的外在善，荣誉的配得以接受者自身的内在德性为基础。荣誉内在地作用于我们的心灵，因其与德性的联系成为幸福生活内在价值的一部分。

Aristotle regards honor as the greatest external good, and when he discusses the classification of three kinds of life, he thinks that honor depends on the giver rather than the receiver. When discussing the virtue of magnanimity, we think that honor is the reward of virtue. Since honor is the reward of virtue, it should depend on the inner virtue of the recipient rather than the outer award of the giver. What does the source of honor depend on？Some scholars think that honor, as an external good, depends on other people's awarding, and the obtaining of honor is uncertain. First of all, this paper sorts out the concept of honor and the background of the concept of honor in Aristotle's ethics, and emphasizes the important influence of honor on the ancient Greek values. Secondly, it analyzes the proposition that "honor is the greatest external good". It holds that the external good cannot be simply understood as the external good relative to the soul. When analyzing the classification of the three kinds of good, it is found that the influence of the external good on happiness is internal. As the greatest external good，honor is more internal because of its virtue value and soul influence. Thirdly, it analyzes that "honor is the reward of virtue", analyzes that the distribution of honor is "deserve", whether the distribution of "deserve" is fair, under the distribution of honor, individuals need to rely on their own virtue value to obtain honor, and other external goodness can only play a role as the elements of virtue life. Finally, return to the honor in the text of Nicomachean Ethics, analyze the honor from the three perspectives of the giver, honor and the receiver, and clarify that the pursuit of honor is divided into the pursuit in the sense of nature and even. Affirming the inner virtue of an individual is the foundation of being worthy of honor. The receiver's attitude towards honor is not passive acceptance, but active pursuit. We can't simply regard honor as the external good of the giver. The obtaining of honor is based on the inner virtue of the receiver. Honor plays an internal role in our mind, and it becomes a part of the inner value of happy life because of its connection with virtue.