The word morality makes people uneasy – but not ethics. What is the basis of a moral education? Flood G/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND The human animal takes a remarkably long time to reach maturity. And we cram ...
Until recently, the language of morality belonged to social conservatives. But the history of liberalism suggests that values ...
This post is in response to How Moral Principles Make Us Dumb By Jeremy E. Sherman Ph.D. Two weeks ago I said, "I never met a moral principle I could trust." One reader responded: Generalizations and ...
Will you be flagged at the border? Will your mortgage application be approved? During wartime, whose neighbourhood would a weapon system target? These are moral choices — about harm and fairness — and ...
1. Moral relativism is avoidable: While we often talk as though we have the last word on morality, no one ever really gets the last word for the simple reason that we can always challenge the morality ...
Daily life is peppered with moral decisions. Some are so automatic that they fail to register—like holding the door for a mother struggling with a stroller, or resisting a passing urge to elbow the ...