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.

Corporate superstars are often celebrated for their business acumen, innovation, and even edginess. But how often are they congratulated for their moral leadership? Our research shows that 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 ...

Does an education in everyday ethics really require an understanding of moral philosophy? Jef Safi/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Ethics are increasingly a part of the school curriculum, and practical ...

In this series, we have invited philosophers to write about what they consider to be the greatest moral challenge of our time, and how we should address it. It would be easy to conclude that there’s a ...

What makes humans moral beings? This is the question that leads off the abstract of a paper by Baumard et al (2013), and certainly one worth considering. However, before one can begin to answer that ...

A theology professor last night supported a current trend within the Church to define morality as personal responsibility rather than conformity to law. In a speech on "The New Morality" at the ...

Morality is not just something that people learn, argues Yale psychologist Paul Bloom: It is something we are all born with. At birth, babies are endowed with compassion, with empathy, with the ...