In wealthy, more economically equal countries such as Switzerland and Belgium, people were more likely to say that having too ...

If you are not yet familiar with philosopher G. E. M. Anscombe, her influential life is memorably summed up here. For a thorough overview of her thought, please see the entry written by philosopher ...

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol. 16, No. 5, Special Issue: BSET 2012 (November 2013), pp. 923-937 (15 pages) According to moral error theory, moral discourse ...

Power has become the superordinate goal for many and sits in the front seat, while truth sits in the backseat and sometimes ...

The pharmaceutical industry needs to rehabilitate its image. Moral foundations theory can help. Over the course of a career spent in the industry, I have felt disapproval, mostly from liberal friends ...

This essay presents a new “reason-based” approach to the formal representation of moral theories, drawing on recent decision-theoretic work. It shows that any moral theory within a very large class ...

The purpose of Aquinas's Ethics is to place Thomas Aquinas's moral theory in its full philosophical and theological context and to do so in a way that makes Aquinas (1224/5-1274) readily accessible to ...

Originalism can be moral even if some individual provisions, as originally understood, fail to pass universal tests for morality. What matters is not the morality of the individual rules, but the ...

Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...