Keywords

1. Guiding criterion of civility: Civility is mutual respect in shared responsibility.
2. Levels of civility: Civility exists to varying degrees and with varying levels of security: absent, uncertain/low, open, secure, developed.
3. General welfare function: The higher the prevailing level of civility, the greater the opportunities for welfare available to the community as a whole.
4. Variable space: Interaction logics, forms of interaction and levels of civility influence one another and thus constitute a variable space of civility. In this process, more or less dynamic developments of their own may emerge.
5. Social Spacetime: With low levels of civility, actors tend to think within narrower spatial and temporal horizons; with higher levels of civility, they tend to think within broader ones. Since this influences their actions, levels of civility give rise to a social spacetime.
6. Humanity’s Learning: Whether and how individuals learn is an open question; even more so whether and how humanity as a whole (collectively) learns quickly enough to survive. 
7. Civility Analysis: How actors relate to one another can be analyzed universally using the theory of civility.
8. Capacity for forecasting and action: Sociopolitical processes are fundamentally open-ended. Depending on the given and foreseeable contextual conditions, they can be assessed more or less accurately, but never predicted with certainty. In open processes, well-informed and determined actors have a chance of success, even in cases that appear hopeless.
9. Civility ethics: From an ethical perspective of civility, actors operate responsibly in accordance with the conditions that exist and can be anticipated.
10. Civility navigation: Finding the best possible orientation in a complex and constantly changing environment, and acting accordingly, is what civility navigation is about..
11. Civility policy is policy aimed at preserving and promoting civility as effectively as possible. It operates with particular sensitivity and navigational awareness under complex and changing conditions; however, it can also deliberately influence other actors and conditions.:
12. Development of the theory: Since its first presentation as a theory of civil modernity (2018), the theory of civility has been continuously developed. It can and should become part of humanity’s general learning process.
13. Accessibility: All texts and videos on the theory of civility are freely accessible, currently in particular via the Civility gUG website. This free accessibility is to be maintained and promoted as effectively as possible, by whatever means available, even under difficult conditions.