The Wittenberg Framework (Part VII) Normative Foundations and Philosophical Positioning

Reader’s note: New readers are encouraged to begin with Part 0 , Chapter 4 (“Architecture of the Series and Reader Orientation ”), which provides a brief overview and orientation to the Framework. Links to Preprints are listed in Part 0, Chapter 5 (“Publication and Citation Record”) This Part develops the philosophical grounding of the axial architecture introduced in Parts I–IV of the Wittenberg Framework. It reconstructs classical ethical and political traditions — including deontological, consequentialist, virtue-ethical, relational, and political normativity — as structural axial configurations at the level of normative morphology, without extending or modifying the existing taxonomy. The contribution of…