Ethics

Baruch Spinoza suggests how to lead a virtuous and blessed life.

The question of anti-Semitism, Nazism, and a particularly nasty sibling haunted Nietzsche’s legacy.

Do right and wrong depend on culture, or does morality transcend place and time?

Some neurology experiments — such as growing miniature human brains and reanimating the brains of dead pigs — are getting weird. It’s time to discuss ethics.

For the ancients, hospitality was an inviolable law enforced by gods and priests and anyone else with the power to make you pay dearly for mistreating a stranger.

A new study tested to what extent dogs can sense human deception.

The ethical debate over zoos is going to grow louder. There might be a solution that involves robots.

Gain-of-function mutation research may help predict the next pandemic — or, critics argue, cause one.

The wise, the old, and the experienced matter to a full and happy life.

Apart from divine authority, is there an ethical basis for right and wrong?

A virtuous diet isn’t strictly vegan.

As a form of civil disobedience, hacking can help make the world a better place.

It could lead to a massive uptake in those previously hesitant.

When does a healthy desire for wealth morph into greed? And how can we stop it?

Hippocrates overturned conventional wisdom and invented modern medicine.

“The question is which are okay, which are not okay.”

What’s the difference between brainwashing and rehabilitation?

How morally developed are you?

This spring, a U.S. and Chinese team announced that it had successfully grown, for the first time, embryos that included both human and monkey cells.

Many people believe that in the face of profound evil, they would have the courage to speak up. It might be harder than we think.

In the near-term, gene editing is not likely to be useful. Even in the long-term, it may not be very practical.

Do you sound friendly? Hostile? And which voice would be more likely to buy something?

Did the 20th century bring a breakthrough in how children are treated?

What do communist dictators Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong have in common with U.S. Presidents like John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan? Hint: It’s the same thing they have in […]

Could a pill make you more moral? Should you take it if it could?

The potential of CRISPR technology is incredible, but the threats are too serious to ignore.

The design of a classic video game yields insights on how to address global poverty.

Our brains make snap moral decisions in mere seconds.

At first blush, the damages done by sexual harassment seem obvious. Make that incredibly obvious. Such behavior exposes our organizations to legal consequences and the subsequent financial fallout. And in […]

Identity politics has become a highly contentious element within modern political discourse. Those who support this approach believe it bolsters the presence and power of those who would otherwise be […]