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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]: The belief that there is no God, or there are no gods; on a popular usage, the mere lack of any belief in any God or gods also qualifies as atheism, though philosophers more often call this agnosticism. [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]: (1806–1873) British political philosopher, ethicist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, most noted for his defense of liberalism in On Liberty. [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. [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]: Activity that relates to the way in which society is governed, and the process by which human beings living in communities make decisions and establish obligatory values for its members (although more widely it can also refer to processes concerning the exercise of influence, status or power in government decision-making). [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]
