The social contract Organized human societies all develop social contracts, either oral or written: rules or laws that reinforce and cement our basic cooperative instincts and maintain order. The ...

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.

Visual representation of the framework for how the scale and distance afforded by the internet distorts our evolved reactions for compassion for victims and punishment of transgressors in moral ...

Pope Saint John Paul II stated that the biggest question before a democratic society is how we live together. And in seeking an answer to this question, one has to ask, “Can a society survive without ...

On December 10, the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) will reach its three-quarters of a century milestone. Adopted on the same day by the UN General Assembly in 1948, the ...

Select any two people at random from amongst the eight billion humans alive today, and you are likely to find a great many points of moral agreement alongside a similarly large number of moral ...