morality
‘The Broad and Narrow Way’ helped 19th-century preachers explain the consequences of virtue and vice.
Deciding how we ought to live is one of the greatest challenges of being alive. Ask yourself these important questions to gain clarity, with philosopher Peter Singer.
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Laws can’t stand by themselves. Professor James Stoner explains why.
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Considering strands of liberalism and how each determines right from wrong.
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61% said adopting a vegan diet was not enjoyable.
We all know somebody who avoids meat. These schools of thought suggest those people are onto something.
Does voting serve the collective good, or should we just not bother?
Objections to liberalism are often tied to traditions, morals, and cultural identity.
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Whether or not women think beards are sexy has to do with “moral disgust”
Charity and volunteering not only benefit the recipient but help you become happier and healthier in the new year.
Perhaps sooner than we think, we’ll need to examine the moral standing of intelligent machines.
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What could be better than “do unto others as you would have others do unto you”?
Determining whether human nature is short-sighted when it comes to survival-necessary situations
How deep are America’s cultural fault lines? Depends on which data you crunch.
We tend to promote foreigners by broadcasting their economic and scholarly value, instead of their intrinsic humanity.
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Ever taken pleasure in someone else’s misfortune?
The goal is to eventually grow a human pancreas in a larger animal – such as a pig – which can be transplanted.
“A serious party neglects the underlying virtues of playfulness and generosity that make a party authentic.”
Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a well-known model of human development, but Maslow’s friend and colleague Kazimierz Dąbrowski believed humans developed in a different way.
Former evangelical pastor Joshua Harris has put himself in a difficult situation.
In McMindfulness, Ronald Purser says modern mindfulness is dictated more by market forces than ethics.
The results contradict the popular assumption that men react far more strongly to pornography.
Should doctors allow their expertise to trump patient’s personal goals — or should they yield to it?
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These effective strategies can minimize harmful moral grandstanding – in yourself and in others.
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If virtue is insufficient temptation, then the internet makes sure we are never lacking.
Moral grandstanding is a vanity project that sabotages public discourse says moral philosopher Brandon Warmke.
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It’s illegal to discriminate against people based on their gender, race, or religion. What about veganism?