NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 14: A person passes frozen turkeys displayed for sale inside a grocery store on November 14, 2022 in New York City. The price of turkeys, a staple for many Americans at ...

Is it ever right to hold a grudge? Is resentment or unforgiveness ever justified? These questions were front and center in a seminar with a bunch of freshmen not long ago; their answers revealed one ...

A wide variety of voices from all around the world have spoken about US President Trump's social media post and the chance that Pope Leo had to respond some hours laster, as he was on a plane with ...

The argument for individual conscience: Only a deep internal exploration can distinguish between right and wrong, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral, virtue and sin, honor and disgrace, etc.

I noted in my last post that many science-minded moral philosophers suggest that morality should aspire towards utilitarian goals (maximizing welfare for the greatest number of people/beings). I also ...

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.” – Isaiah 5:20 (NIV) God’s guidance – not our own ...

Today the word “virtue” is often a synonym for “morality,” so that a “virtuous” person is considered a “moral” person. That’s fine. Words often broaden their meaning. But originally, “virtue” and ...

The 142nd Education Information Sharing Meeting to be held on Monday, November 16, will feature 'What is Ethical ESD? - ...

A new book finds this evidence in rational arguments. And in something those arguments can’t capture. There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the ...

We tend to marvel at the righteous. Yet, many of them don't marvel back. Moral masochism, the preoccupation with sacrifice and, thus, being good, is often written about when discussing perfectionism ...

The dialogues of Plato provide the first sustained demonstration both of the depth and difficulty of philosophy, and of the fact that the beginnings of the most profound philosophical investigations ...