Ecological time: The time required for the development, maintenance and repair of processes and environments that operate at a macro-environmental level and scale. See Biological Time. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of… Read More

Ecology: relationships among, and science of, organisms and their environments. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Oxford, 2004-11. 

Ecology of justice: The branch of ecology of life value applying to human societies: that is, the relations among individuals in a society such that each receives what s/he is due in rights and obligations towards universal life goods provision for all, admitting of degrees of realization with means available.  See also Ecology of life value and… Read More

Ecology of life value: Ecology with life-value coordinates so that the totality of relations among species, their reproduction and distribution is conceived to be better rather than worse by the coherent life-field advance and biodiversification it maintains and develops to a more comprehensively inclusive life system whole: in short, the primary axiom of value at an… Read More

Economics: a social science allegedly studying the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Oxford, 2004-11. 

Either-or reduction: A regulating structure of normative thinking which assumes the logical form of p or not-p (“the excluded middle”), thereby eliminating the range of other value possibilities including degrees of each and mutual inclusions – – for example, assuming that a society is either capitalist or socialist, that an ethic is either consequentialist or… Read More

Empiricism: doctrine according to which concepts and/or knowledge are derived from and verifiable by sensory experience. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Oxford, 2004-11. 

Empowerment for health: In health promotion, empowerment is a process through which people gain greater control over decisions and actions affecting their health. Reference: new definition Empowerment may be a social, cultural, psychological or political process through which individuals and social groups are able to express their needs, present their concerns, devise strategies for involvement… Read More

Enabling: In health promotion, enabling means taking action in partnership with individuals or groups to empower them, through the mobilization of human and material resources, to promote and protect their health. Reference: new definition The emphasis in this definition on empowerment through partnership, and on the mobilization of resources draws attention to the important role of health… Read More

Enlightenment: social, political and philosophical movement of the 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing the free use of reason in the scrutiny of doctrines for the progress of humanity. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia… Read More