For a good 20 years, Britons have looked on Sir Walter Moberly, principal of the new St. Catharine’s College at Windsor, as one of their top educators. In the last three years, they have also come to ...

Anthropological approaches to ethics and morality examine how diverse societies construct, negotiate and enact principles of right and wrong. Far from treating morality as a fixed abstraction, ...

Is morality an adaptation, crafted by the invisible hand of natural selection? Or do we just make it up? This turns out to be a tricky question to answer. On the one hand, there's little doubt that ...

Research on moral foundations and political ideology explores how intuitive moral sensitivities shape and reflect ideological commitments. Moral Foundations Theory proposes that human moral reasoning ...

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.

In 1885, Nietzsche’s sister Elisabeth married Bernhard Förster, a high school teacher turned German nationalist and rabid ...

Dr. DeSteno is a research psychologist who studies religious belief and practice. In a public statement of its intentions for its Claude chatbot, the artificial intelligence company Anthropic has said ...