- Maxim "Respect Your Community": Recognize that you owe certain duties as a member of a community and follow through with these duties.
- Duty: An action that is expected or required of you; an action that you must follow through with as a member of a community.
- Social Contract: An unwritten and unspoken contract that you agree to whenever you are a member of a community. The contract specifies what you are to give and take. You give certain duties whether you like them or not. You take certain benefits that you have a right to as a member of a community. Whether you notice it or not, every community works this way.
- Socrates in Crito: In the dialogue Crito, by plato, Socrates is faced with the choice to escape from prison, avoid execution, and live in exile or to follow the laws of Athens--the same laws by which he was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death--and remain in prison to await execution. Out of respect for the social contract, Socrates elects to follow the laws, stay in prison, and accept the death penalty.
- Personal Inclination: What you want to do; what you feel like doing.
- Code Switching: Going back and forth between different ways of speaking, dressing, acting, etc. in order to identify with different communities.
- Identifying with a Community: Showing that you are a member of that community.
10th Grade Ethics Topics Discussed as of Oct. 7
Respect Unit
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