AGA-1
Large-scale development benefit
Large-scale development benefit.
- Ethical axis
- Benefit ↔ Harm
- Ethical direction
- Positive pole
- Evidence status
- Verified
- Period
- 1957–2025
- Affected scope
- Nizari Ismaili community and Aga Khan Development Network
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Ethical assessment categories
Ethical score profile
This assessment does not reduce the subject to one moral ranking. Each dimension is scored separately from −100 to +100 and must be read with its evidence and uncertainty.
Scorecard status: Recalculated under multidimensional system
- Personal moral conduct
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+62.5
Plausible range: +52.5 to +72.5 - Rights and dignity
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+58.3
Plausible range: +48.3 to +68.3 - Nonviolence and harm
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+80.0
Plausible range: +70.0 to +90.0 - Stewardship of power
- Not applicable
- Wisdom and truthfulness
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+62.5
Plausible range: +52.5 to +72.5 - Consequential legacy
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+78.3
Plausible range: +68.3 to +88.3 - Severe-harm record
- No separate finding recorded
- Evidence confidence
- B — high
Scope of assessment
International development, health, education, cultural restoration, pluralism, hereditary authority and transparency.
The score evaluates documented public conduct during the stated period. It does not measure inherent human worth, does not constitute a legal verdict and remains open to correction when stronger evidence becomes available.
Reasoned conclusion
A strongly positive developmental record moderated by inherited authority and opaque institutional boundaries.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
Ethical-domain scores
| Domain | Score | Intensity | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consequences | +80.0 | 80.0 | B — high |
| Rights and duties | +55.0 | 55.0 | B — high |
| Virtue and character | +45.0 | 45.0 | B — high |
| Intentions | +80.0 | 80.0 | B — high |
| Care | +80.0 | 80.0 | B — high |
| Justice | +55.0 | 55.0 | B — high |
| Wisdom and judgment | +75.0 | 75.0 | B — high |
| Baseline ethics | +65.0 | 65.0 | B — high |
Bipolar ethical variables
| Positive pole | Negative pole | Score | Intensity | Confidence | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human dignity | Dehumanisation | +65.0 | 65.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Human dignity and Dehumanisation. |
| Care | Neglect | +80.0 | 80.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Care and Neglect. |
| Benefit | Harm | +80.0 | 80.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Benefit and Harm. |
| Benevolent intention | Malicious intention | +80.0 | 80.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Benevolent intention and Malicious intention. |
| Justice | Injustice | +55.0 | 55.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Justice and Injustice. |
| Respect for rights | Violation of rights | +55.0 | 55.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Respect for rights and Violation of rights. |
| Integrity | Corruption | +45.0 | 45.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Integrity and Corruption. |
| Wisdom | Ignorance | +75.0 | 75.0 | B — high | Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Wisdom and Ignorance. |
Principal positive evidence
Large, durable institutions serving health, education, culture and economic opportunity across communities.
Principal negative evidence
Hereditary authority, concentrated resources and incomplete transparency reduce the result.
Evidence considered
AGA-2
Pluralism without religious discrimination
Pluralism without religious discrimination.
- Ethical axis
- Respect for rights ↔ Violation of rights
- Ethical direction
- Positive pole
- Evidence status
- Verified
- Period
- 1957–2025
- Affected scope
- Nizari Ismaili community and Aga Khan Development Network
AGA-3
Institution building with transparency limits
Institution building with transparency limits.
- Ethical axis
- Integrity ↔ Corruption
- Ethical direction
- Positive pole
- Evidence status
- Verified
- Period
- 1957–2025
- Affected scope
- Nizari Ismaili community and Aga Khan Development Network
AGA-4
Material and spiritual welfare
Material and spiritual welfare.
- Ethical axis
- Benevolent intention ↔ Malicious intention
- Ethical direction
- Positive pole
- Evidence status
- Verified
- Period
- 1957–2025
- Affected scope
- Nizari Ismaili community and Aga Khan Development Network
AGA-5
Practical care through durable institutions
Practical care through durable institutions.
- Ethical axis
- Care ↔ Neglect
- Ethical direction
- Positive pole
- Evidence status
- Verified
- Period
- 1957–2025
- Affected scope
- Nizari Ismaili community and Aga Khan Development Network
AGA-6
Opportunity for disadvantaged communities
Opportunity for disadvantaged communities.
- Ethical axis
- Justice ↔ Injustice
- Ethical direction
- Positive pole
- Evidence status
- Verified
- Period
- 1957–2025
- Affected scope
- Nizari Ismaili community and Aga Khan Development Network
AGA-7
Integrated long-term development
Integrated long-term development.
- Ethical axis
- Wisdom ↔ Ignorance
- Ethical direction
- Positive pole
- Evidence status
- Verified
- Period
- 1957–2025
- Affected scope
- Nizari Ismaili community and Aga Khan Development Network
AGA-8
Equal dignity with hereditary privilege
Equal dignity with hereditary privilege.
- Ethical axis
- Human dignity ↔ Dehumanisation
- Ethical direction
- Positive pole
- Evidence status
- Verified
- Period
- 1957–2025
- Affected scope
- Nizari Ismaili community and Aga Khan Development Network
Disputed claims
Attribution and interpretation remain disputed; the assessment follows documented public conduct.
Excluded claims
Unverified private allegations and conduct outside reasonable responsibility were excluded.
Sources
- Aga Khan Development Network — Aga Khan Development Network (2025) Evidence item AGA-1; Supports the evidence item. View source
- Aga Khan IV — Global Centre for Pluralism (2025) Evidence item AGA-2; Supports the evidence item. View source
- Aga Khan IV, 1936–2025 — Aga Khan Development Network (2025) Evidence item AGA-3; Supports the evidence item. View source
- Aga Khan IV, 1936–2025 — Aga Khan Development Network (2025) Evidence item AGA-4; Supports the evidence item. View source
- Aga Khan Development Network — Aga Khan Development Network (2025) Evidence item AGA-5; Supports the evidence item. View source
- Aga Khan Development Network — Aga Khan Development Network (2025) Evidence item AGA-6; Supports the evidence item. View source
- Aga Khan Development Network — Aga Khan Development Network (2025) Evidence item AGA-7; Supports the evidence item. View source
- Aga Khan IV — Global Centre for Pluralism (2025) Evidence item AGA-8; Supports the evidence item. View source
Correction history
No corrections have been recorded.