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  • Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge based on non–trivial refutable concepts that can be verified or rejected on the base of observation and experimentation [e]
  • Religion [r]: Belief in, and systems of, worshipful dedication to a superhuman power or belief in the ultimate nature of existence. [e]
  • Education [r]: Learning, teaching, research and scholarship activities for the purpose of organizing, presenting and acquiring knowledge, skills or social norms. [e]
• Education is generally deemed to be fundamental to civil society because of its role and function in socializing youths and recent immigrants to their roles and responsibilities as citizens.
  • Charity [r]: From the Latin, caritas, the non-erotic love of others; modern connotations stress efforts to aid or help others. [e]
  • Community [r]: Generally, a group of organisms sharing an environment. In human communities the shared environment may be defined by mutual interests, pooled resources, common beliefs, shared pursuits, perceived needs, or other common traits or characteristics, and may be associated with a shared identity which in the case of physical communities may include a sense of place. [e]
• Community has a huge number of nuances of meaning, across many disciplines, almost all of which are important in the context of civil society.
  • Philanthropy [r]: Action for the love (or good) of humankind; can refer narrowly to fundraising or broadly to "private action for the public good". [e]

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