When we look back at the beliefs and practices of our ancestors, we are often shocked at what they found morally acceptable: the public torture of criminals, the trading of slaves, and the subjugation ...

Ethics represent the beliefs of your external community, while your morals are your personal, internal sense of right and ...

Political philosophers have long recognized the paradoxical connection between increased safety and greater perceptions of evil. The "Tocqueville paradox," named after the nineteenth-century French ...

Vox recently asked 15 experts on moral philosophy and public policy to answer the following question: "What do we do know that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years?" The resulting essays are ...

Hate has been hypothesized as a learned emotion, which usually develops in the emotionally formative years of 6-8. However, researchers have argued that “hate is linked to morality through negative ...

Whenever a new technology comes along that creates a revolutionarily new means of communication, the young glom onto it and their elders, or a highly vocal group of them, believe it is leading to the ...

Some people argue that a company's sole purpose is to maximize profits and that focusing on any other concerns is a violation of fiduciary responsibility. But just because business is a highly ...