Global health: Global health refers to the transnational impacts of globalization upon health determinants and health problems which are the beyond the control of individual nations. Reference: Modified definition (Lee, 2003) Issues on the global health agenda include the inequities caused by patterns of international trade and investment, the effects of global climate change, the… Read More

Globalization: A concept which admits of many different meanings but whose dominant meaning is globalization of capitalism. See Capitalism. The process whereby formerly local and national societies are drawn into more extensive and intensive connections with each other. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John… Read More

God: Typically understood in theism as a transcendent being which is characterized by the properties of omnipotence, omniscience and benevolence, but can be undogmatically understood as all-inclusive being becoming more all-inclusive being. See Transcendental God. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World… Read More

Good: Classically, the ultimate goal and reason of all human action; as embodied, the expression and enjoyment of the highest capabilities of which human beings are capable. 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

Group-mind: The manifestation of a life-blind ruling value syntax regulating consciousness across individuals and groups. See Ruling Value Syntax. 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.