Patricia Fachin, journalist with the Instituto Humanitas Unisinos in Brazil, recently interviewed Brian Green, assistant director of Campus Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, about ...
The governor of Louisiana just signed a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools. There are two problems with this. The first and most obvious is that the Constitution ...
THE MORAL IDEA BEHIND ANARCHISM has always been somewhat elusive. There have probably been almost as many anarchist moralities as there have been anarchists, but for analysis they can be broadly ...
As I discuss philosophical questions with my high school students, I find that they tend to gravitate toward ethical dilemmas and “What-would-you-do-in-this-situation” type conversations. It is ...
Review of Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition by Patricia S. Churchland. W.W. Norton & Company. 226 pp. $27.95. In deriving foundational principles of morality, Immanuel Kant declared, “the ...
THE state finds its warrant for the establishment of free common schools in the well-founded assumption that the education of the young is necessary to good citizenship and the safety of free ...
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Is morality relative?

It is widely accepted in the Western world today that morality is relative. People who say this usually mean that morality is ...
The U.S. Army assigned me to the academic faculty at the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., the summer of 1987. Dave McCormick, current candidate for Pennsylvania’s senate seat, was ...
Review of Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition by Patricia S. Churchland. W.W. Norton & Company. 226 pp. $27.95. In deriving foundational principles of morality, Immanuel Kant declared, “the ...
Ahmedabad: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday said morality has no meaning without spirituality, and violence in society will stop if people follow the mantra: ‘I am in ...
DR. GORE is one of the increasing many who feel that much in conventional morality is baseless, while more is only not crumbling because built up on other foundations than those commonly alleged.
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