The document discusses the SOLID principles of object-oriented design:
1. The Single Responsibility Principle states that a class should have one, and only one, reason to change.
2. The Open-Closed Principle states that software entities should be open for extension but closed for modification. Behavior is changed through inheritance and composition rather than direct modification.
3. The Liskov Substitution Principle states that subclasses must behave in the same way as the base class so that the base class can be substituted wherever the subclass is expected.
4. The Interface Segregation Principle states that interfaces should be small and focused so that client classes do not depend on methods they do not use.