Good moral reasoning is extremely important for Homo sapiens. Our lives are more fruitful if we recognize salient ethical norms and reason effectively about their application to our own situations. We ...

John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice is often treated as a fully formed philosophical monument, a sudden intervention that ...

The purpose of Aquinas's Ethics is to place Thomas Aquinas's moral theory in its full philosophical and theological context and to do so in a way that makes Aquinas (1224/5-1274) readily accessible to ...

Moral Progress used to be one of the core ideas and commitments of the Enlightenment. Then it became a controversial idea, but a new theory of moral progress is now gaining traction, argues LSE ...

Stephen Darwall and R. Jay Wallace have independently argued that morality is essentially interpersonal by appealing to necessary connections between morality and responsibility. According to Darwall, ...

There is a big difference between factual statements and statements that express strong emotions or demands (Messerly, 2016). When you claim that something is a fact (for example, "Trees get their ...

If you want to understand and explain morality, the first useful step is to be sure you're clear on your definition of morality. This first step has, unfortunately, been a stumbling point for many ...

Some years ago, a student asked to see me during office hours to talk about a personal problem that, she assured me, related to our recent ethics class. It seemed she was having difficulties with a ...