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authority
thumb|The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial authority in the country Authority is commonly understood as the legitimate power of a person or group over other people.
social Darwinism
biological concepts of natural selection & survival fitness re-imagined socio-politically
ubuntu
Southern African philosophy
corporate social responsibility
form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model
gross national happiness
philosophy that guides the government of Bhutan
Progressive Era
era in the history of the USA between 1890's and 1920's
Catholic social teaching
Catholic doctrines on matters of human dignity and common good in society
professional ethics
principles and rules which guide professional activity
social responsibility
ethical theory that an entity, be it an organization or individual, has an obligation to act to benefit society at large
feminist ethics
approach to ethics
odious debt
legal theory that says that the national debt incurred by a despotic regime should not be enforceable
philosophy of love
branch of philosophy
political ethics
practice of making moral judgments about political action and political agents
culpability
In criminal law, culpability, or being culpable, is a measure of the degree to which an agent, such as a person, can be held morally or legally responsible for action and inaction. It has been noted that the word culpability "ordinarily has normative force, for in nonlegal English, a person is culpable only if he is justly to blame for his conduct". The guilt principle requires that in order to convict a person it is necessary to ascertain his voluntary or reckless behaviour, Strict Liability being prohibited.
philosophy of sport
area of philosophy that seeks to conceptually analyze issues of sport as human activity
social effect of evolutionary theory
effects on human societies of the scientific explanation of life's diversity
criminalization of homosexuality
classification of same-sex sexual acts as a criminal offence
moral economy
way of viewing economic activity
procedural justice
fairness in the processes that resolve disputes and allocate resources
public trust
idea in democracy that the public must have faith in government
international ethics
area of international relations theory concerning the extent and scope of ethical obligations between states in an era of globalization
Social Choice and Individual Values
essay by Kenneth Arrow
Feminist justice ethics
feminist view on morality
Death penalty for Homosexuality
death penalty for sexual activity between persons of the same sex
Enlightened self-interest
ethical philosophy
Sedlighetsdebatten
debate about sexual morality in the Nordic countries in the 1880s
analysis of Western European colonialism and colonization
public sector ethics
ethics