These conscience-based accounts are exceedingly popular among many people, academics and non-academics alike, perhaps owing to its intuitive appeal: it certainly feels like we don’t do certain things ...

"A person's moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one's behavior" -- the dictionary definition of "conscience." Whenever I make the common-sense argument that people need to ...

On Jan. 18 on the BBC's "Sunday" program, American Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio said of Catholic personnel in the United States military who could be ordered to attack Greenland: "Within the realm of ...

THE old humanity,” writes an historian of Islam, “had been killed by the new religion.” This is what always happens. True morality, the adepts of each religion tell us, is dependent on their ...

Leo Tolstoy's wisdom highlights that popular support does not validate an action. History shows many widely accepted ...

In the middle of the 18th century, philosopher and economist Adam Smith wrote that behavior is guided by an “Impartial Spectator.” Almost a century later, St. John Henry Newman addressed the “Moral ...

In his new book, Moral Origins, evolutionary anthropologist Christopher Boehm speculates that human morality emerged along with big game hunting. Basic Books; Jenny Cool Why do people show kindness to ...

The Final Rule makes clear that OCR has the authority to handle and investigate complaints of alleged violations of the federal health care conscience protection statutes. Under this authority, OCR is ...

When it comes to corporations doing “the right thing,” CEOs often find themselves at the intersection of philosophy, personal beliefs and the goal of achieving profitability for their companies. That ...