When we look back at the beliefs and practices of our ancestors, we are often shocked at what they found morally acceptable: the public torture of criminals, the trading of slaves, and the subjugation ...

Among the myriad perplexities of our recent presidential elections is the apparent paradox by which a voter base presumably made largely of moral individuals voted in droves for a candidate who has ...

Many scientists are cynical about moral reasoning. They claim that humans do not reason about right and wrong to improve their moral perspectives, they do so to justify themselves to others. Reasoning ...

A new book finds this evidence in rational arguments. And in something those arguments can’t capture. There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the ...

"For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.” Bill Bennett, the ...