Socio-political landscapes – our social 'playing field’ - where domain contributions via ethical dynamics, come together to create evolving and potentially relevant landscape realities. Specifically, this Chapter addresses our socio-political structures:
• Domains – Structures that give social relevance to our cognitive potentialities – an ‘intentionality’;
• Institutions (Individuals and Societies) – Our core socio-political ‘relational’ structures; and,
• Socio-political landscapes – Our ‘playing field’ for the creation of ‘landscape realities’.
Here, ethical dynamics are viewed as dependent on the dynamics of authority and power, those dynamics that reflect our socio-political instincts for survival and growth on our many socio-political landscapes.
Overall, ethics will be viewed as a competitive phenomenon where the ethics of the individual as an example, are mediated on an ongoing basis via the individual’s institutional participation, and similarly for institutions between themselves and, on a broader stage, for our different societies via as an example, international institutions.