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  • (Thomas) Robert Malthus [r]: British economist (1766-1834) who warned about the dangers of population growth. [e]
  • Adam Smith [r]: Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723-1790), a major contributor to the modern perception of free market economics; author of Wealth of Nations (1776). [e]
  • Applied Ethics [r]: The philosophical examination, from a moral standpoint, of particular issues in private and public life that are matters of moral judgment. [e]
  • Atheism [r]: Absence of belief in any god or other supernatural beings. [e]
  • Catalog of political philosophers [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Ethics [r]: The branch of philosophy dealing with standards of good and evil. [e]
  • Frances Hutcheson [r]: (1694-1746) Moral philosopher, prominent in the Scottish Enlightenment, known for his theory of aesthetics (that beauty is not a property of the object, but arises from an innate "aesthetic sense"). [e]
  • Global justice [r]: Topic in political philosophy arising from the concern that humans do not live in a just world. [e]
  • Jeremy Bentham [r]: (1748–1832) British utilitarian political philosopher. [e]
  • John Stuart Mill [r]: Leading 19th-century British philosopher who made major contributions to ethics, economics, and political philosophy. [e]
  • Law [r]: Body of rules of conduct of binding legal force and effect, prescribed, recognized, and enforced by a controlling authority. [e]
  • Liberalism [r]: Economic and political doctrine advocating free enterprise, free competition and free will. A shortcut word grouping a swath of people who allegedly hold similar values. The liberal ideal does not really exist, as no two people would likely define it exactly the same. Some of the generalizations that people make about liberals include that they are open to social change, not tied to traditional family values, not militaristic, lacking in fiscal restraint, and socially tolerant. [e]
  • Peter Singer [r]: Australian moral philosopher who has made significant utilitarian contributions to animal liberation philosophy and applied ethics. [e]
  • Philosophy [r]: The study of the meaning and justification of beliefs about the most general, or universal, aspects of things. [e]
  • Political philosophy [r]: Branch of philosophy that deals with fundamental questions about politics. [e]
  • Politics [r]: The process by which human beings living in communities make decisions and establish obligatory values for their members. [e]
  • Robert Nozick [r]: (1938–2002) American political philosopher, known for Anarchy, State, and Utopia, which espoused libertarianism, minarchism and capitalism. [e]
  • Social contract [r]: Agreement among the members of an organized society or between the governed and the government defining and limiting the rights and duties of each. [e]