{
  "name": "frameworks",
  "description": "Moral frameworks with their editorial cause priorities.",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Cite “Charitology (charitology.org)”.",
  "generated": "2026-10-26",
  "data": {
    "_note": "Moral frameworks used by the Values Compass and the Portfolio Builder. Priorities run from 0 (not a concern of this framework) to 5 (a central concern) and are editorial sketches of how each framework tends to rank causes. Real philosophers disagree inside every framework. Improve these with a pull request that cites your reasoning.",
    "frameworks": [
      {
        "id": "welfare",
        "name": "Welfare",
        "question": "What reduces the most suffering and adds the most wellbeing?",
        "summary": "Counts everyone’s wellbeing equally and looks for the gift that does the most good per dollar.",
        "thinkers": [
          "Jeremy Bentham",
          "John Stuart Mill",
          "Peter Singer"
        ],
        "priorities": {
          "global-health": 5,
          "extreme-poverty": 5,
          "hunger": 4,
          "climate": 3,
          "nature": 2,
          "animals": 5,
          "education": 3,
          "mental-health": 4,
          "housing": 3,
          "democracy": 2,
          "peace": 3,
          "catastrophic-risk": 3,
          "science": 3,
          "community": 1,
          "arts": 1,
          "faith": 1,
          "charity-system": 4
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "rights",
        "name": "Rights and duties",
        "question": "What do we owe each other, whatever the cost?",
        "summary": "Some things are owed to every person: rescue from danger, basic dignity, freedom. Giving secures them.",
        "thinkers": [
          "Immanuel Kant",
          "W. D. Ross",
          "Onora O’Neill"
        ],
        "priorities": {
          "global-health": 4,
          "extreme-poverty": 4,
          "hunger": 5,
          "climate": 3,
          "nature": 2,
          "animals": 2,
          "education": 4,
          "mental-health": 3,
          "housing": 4,
          "democracy": 5,
          "peace": 5,
          "catastrophic-risk": 2,
          "science": 2,
          "community": 3,
          "arts": 2,
          "faith": 3,
          "charity-system": 3
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "justice",
        "name": "Justice",
        "question": "What is unfair, and how do we fix it rather than soften it?",
        "summary": "Looks at who holds power and how institutions distribute advantage, and gives to change them.",
        "thinkers": [
          "John Rawls",
          "Iris Marion Young"
        ],
        "priorities": {
          "global-health": 4,
          "extreme-poverty": 5,
          "hunger": 4,
          "climate": 4,
          "nature": 2,
          "animals": 2,
          "education": 5,
          "mental-health": 3,
          "housing": 5,
          "democracy": 5,
          "peace": 3,
          "catastrophic-risk": 1,
          "science": 2,
          "community": 3,
          "arts": 2,
          "faith": 1,
          "charity-system": 5
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "care",
        "name": "Care",
        "question": "Who depends on me, and how do I show up for them?",
        "summary": "Starts from relationships. The people and places close to us have a real claim on our care.",
        "thinkers": [
          "Carol Gilligan",
          "Nel Noddings",
          "Virginia Held"
        ],
        "priorities": {
          "global-health": 3,
          "extreme-poverty": 3,
          "hunger": 4,
          "climate": 2,
          "nature": 2,
          "animals": 3,
          "education": 3,
          "mental-health": 5,
          "housing": 4,
          "democracy": 1,
          "peace": 2,
          "catastrophic-risk": 1,
          "science": 1,
          "community": 5,
          "arts": 3,
          "faith": 4,
          "charity-system": 2
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "tradition",
        "name": "Faith and tradition",
        "question": "What does my tradition ask me to give, and to whom?",
        "summary": "Zakat, tzedakah, dāna, tithing and seva carry centuries of thought about who to give to and how.",
        "thinkers": [
          "Maimonides",
          "Religious and community traditions worldwide"
        ],
        "priorities": {
          "global-health": 3,
          "extreme-poverty": 5,
          "hunger": 5,
          "climate": 2,
          "nature": 2,
          "animals": 2,
          "education": 3,
          "mental-health": 2,
          "housing": 4,
          "democracy": 1,
          "peace": 3,
          "catastrophic-risk": 1,
          "science": 1,
          "community": 4,
          "arts": 2,
          "faith": 5,
          "charity-system": 2
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "future",
        "name": "Future generations",
        "question": "What protects the people who aren’t born yet?",
        "summary": "Most people who will ever live haven’t been born. Protecting their future may be the largest good available.",
        "thinkers": [
          "Derek Parfit",
          "Hans Jonas",
          "Toby Ord"
        ],
        "priorities": {
          "global-health": 2,
          "extreme-poverty": 2,
          "hunger": 1,
          "climate": 5,
          "nature": 4,
          "animals": 2,
          "education": 3,
          "mental-health": 1,
          "housing": 1,
          "democracy": 4,
          "peace": 4,
          "catastrophic-risk": 5,
          "science": 5,
          "community": 1,
          "arts": 2,
          "faith": 1,
          "charity-system": 4
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "nature",
        "name": "All life",
        "question": "What protects animals and the living world for their own sake?",
        "summary": "Widens the circle of concern beyond humans to animals, species and ecosystems.",
        "thinkers": [
          "Aldo Leopold",
          "Arne Næss"
        ],
        "priorities": {
          "global-health": 2,
          "extreme-poverty": 2,
          "hunger": 2,
          "climate": 5,
          "nature": 5,
          "animals": 5,
          "education": 2,
          "mental-health": 1,
          "housing": 1,
          "democracy": 2,
          "peace": 2,
          "catastrophic-risk": 3,
          "science": 3,
          "community": 2,
          "arts": 2,
          "faith": 2,
          "charity-system": 3
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "flourishing",
        "name": "Flourishing",
        "question": "What helps people become who they could be?",
        "summary": "Good lives need more than survival: health, learning, meaning, culture and the freedom to choose.",
        "thinkers": [
          "Aristotle",
          "Amartya Sen",
          "Martha Nussbaum"
        ],
        "priorities": {
          "global-health": 4,
          "extreme-poverty": 4,
          "hunger": 3,
          "climate": 2,
          "nature": 2,
          "animals": 1,
          "education": 5,
          "mental-health": 4,
          "housing": 3,
          "democracy": 3,
          "peace": 3,
          "catastrophic-risk": 2,
          "science": 4,
          "community": 4,
          "arts": 5,
          "faith": 3,
          "charity-system": 3
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}