Keywords

1. Guiding criterion of civility: Civility is mutual respect in the exercise of shared responsibility.
2. Levels of Civility: Civility exists to varying degrees and with varying levels of security: absent, insecure/low, open, secure, developed.
3. General Welfare Function: The higher the prevailing level of civility, the greater the welfare prospects for everyone involved.
4. Variable Space: Interaction logics, forms of interaction and levels of civility influence one another, together forming a variable space of civility. This can give rise to more or less dynamic developments of their own.
5. Social Spacetime: When civility is low, actors tend to think in narrower spatial and temporal terms; when civility is higher, their thinking tends to extend further in space and time. Since this influences their actions, levels of civility give rise to a social spacetime.
6. Humanity’s learning: Whether and how people learn individually is an open question; even more so is whether and how humanity as a whole (collectively) can learn quickly enough to survive. 
7. Civility Analysis: How actors relate to one another can be analyzed universally through the lens of civility theory.
8. Capacity to Forecast and Act: Sociopolitical processes are fundamentally open-ended. Depending on the conditions at hand and those that can be anticipated, they can be assessed with varying degrees of accuracy, but never predicted with certainty. In open-ended processes, well-informed and determined actors have a chance of success, even in seemingly hopeless situations.
9. Civility ethics: Civility-ethical actors act responsibly in accordance with the conditions that exist and can be anticipated.
10. Civility navigation: Finding your way as effectively as possible in a complex and constantly changing environment, and acting accordingly, is what civility navigation is all about..
11. Civility policy is policymaking aimed at preserving and promoting civility as effectively as possible. It operates with a sensitive, navigational approach, particularly when conditions are complex and changing; it can also deliberately influence other actors and conditions. :
12. Theory development: Since it was first presented as a theory of civil modernity (2018), the theory of civility has been continuously developed. It can and should become part of humanity’s shared learning.
13. Accessibility: All texts and videos on civility theory are freely accessible, currently in particular via the Civility gUG website. This free access should be maintained and promoted as effectively as possible, by any means necessary, even under difficult conditions.