To have moral worth, our actions must be motivated by duty, rather than mere sympathy or inclination. As a paradigm of moral ...

Imagine a world in which each country comes with a unique set of moral codes, where each of them has distinct preferences for punishing or allowing different behaviors. In such a world, creating ...

Anthropologists at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at University of Oxford have identified seven universal moral codes. Conducting an extensive search through ethnographic ...

Judaism’s moral ideas did not remain confined to one people. They shaped Christianity, Islam, Western law, and global ethical ...

In a well-meaning attempt to be tolerant of other cultures and religions we often blithely subvert our values and morality, says Sam Harris, the outspoken critic of blind religious faith. We do this ...

Denise Gamble does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Every once in a while, I read the news and I think "Damn. If only more people knew about virtue ethics." What am I talking about? When we talk about morality, we talk about what's right and what's ...

One hesitates to question A. C. Grayling on his own ground, but there seems to be a crucial gap in his argument from mirror neurons to morality (3 May, p 50). He says the discovery of mirror neurons ...

Anthropologists at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at University of Oxford have identified seven universal moral codes. Conducting an extensive search through ethnographic ...