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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

If you read between the lines of the June 4 front-page article "The Tortured Lives of Interrogators," you can see the error in the American discussion of torture. We ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is moral obligation a serious matter that cannot be seriously taken without the acceptance of something beyond the choice and agreement of humans? The way modern Christians have approached this ...

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When I look at our country and compare it to the nation of my childhood, it is shocking in many ways. I don’t remember our country or our Congress being divided. I certainly don’t remember people ...