Understanding Honor Codes Today

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This essay briefly outlines the honor code as it appears today. According to this paper, the WIKIPEDIA definition reads as follows: An honor code is a set of rules or principles governing a community based on a set of rules or ideals that define what constitutes honorable behavior within that community. This paper argues that it still has a valuable role in today's world.

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"Today, we associate honor codes with the chivalrous knights of King Arthur's round-table or with the dueling gentlemen of Montesquieu's eighteenth-century France. We encounter the archetypal "man of honor" most often in the cinematic violence of samurais, westerns and gangster flicks. Regardless of our distanced encounters with these honorable men, real-life codes of honor continue to play an important role in contemporary society. This essay will briefly outline the honor code as it appears today and will argue that it still has a valuable role. Before we can discuss the contemporary honor code, we need to have a clear definition. "

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