As is often true, he wasn’t the first but is the worst to use others’ wrongs as an excuse for his own.

The paper outlines a view called "social (or two-level) response-dependency" as an addition to standard alternatives in metaethics that allows for a position intermediate between standard versions of ...

How do kids develop a sense of right and wrong? Have you ever wondered why some people stand up for what's right while others ...

After studying various moral theories, one is bound to be left wondering what to believe. In this selection from The Elements of Moral Philosophy, James Rachels sketches what he thinks would be a ...

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 ...

What would happen if everyone did that? It’s a simple question, but new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that it means so much more. “Why not pick ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A University at Buffalo researcher has published a study that uses elements of philosophy, psychology and game theory to develop a model of hypocrisy that helps distinguish genuine ...

There is a big difference between factual statements and statements that express strong emotions or demands (Messerly, 2016). When you claim that something is a fact (for example, "Trees get their ...

Fred McKinney’s column that discusses moral capital (Jan. 6, “President Biden is depleting his own moral capital”) is clearly based on “The Theory of Moral Capital” by Xiaoxi Wang (2018). The ...