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 ...

Moral principles are universal dos and don’ts, best understood as constraints on what you do. Of all the things you could do, moral principles urge particular actions, a constrained set of acceptable ...

Digital disruption and the climate crisis are often framed as economic or social challenges. But they force crucial moral ...

Often in our divided world we disagree with someone about a principle. Person A says that what matters is reproductive freedom and B says that what matters is protecting the unborn. Person C says that ...

Americans are passionately attached to no two things perhaps more closely than they are to their rights and to equality. Under the banner of furthering those two things have most of the broad social ...

Readers of this fish wrap last week were subjected to another onslaught of anti-religious fervor from Col. Musty. As in: “We must return to reason, science, and logic to form policies for a better ...

Americans are passionately attached to no two things perhaps more closely than they are to their rights and to equality. Under the banner of furthering those two things have most of the broad social ...

THE author received the degree of D. Litt. from the University of Glasgow for this thesis, and though primarily dealing with a subject of philosophy, it is of peculiar scientific interest. The moral ...

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna talks to journalists June 13 outside St. John’s Cathedral in Limerick, Ireland. The cardinal was attending a conference, “Let’s Talk Family: Let’s Be Family.” ...

A shipping container filled with wildfire relief donations from Kauai arrives at the Ramelb family’s distribution hub in Lahaina on Oct. 11. However, think for a minute about the results of modeling ...

IN an interesting comment on "The Federalist", immediately after the publication in 1788 of the last of the essays of which it is composed, Washington wrote to Hamilton : "When the transient ...