A business owner or manager has multiple responsibilities, including legal ones, such as paying taxes, as well as moral responsibilities. Moral responsibilities may be individual, meaning each person ...

A letter from July 29 indicated that the social issues of gay marriage and abortion are examples of a downward, sliding scale of morality by giving, in their words, “laughable and outlandish” examples ...

Political philosophers have long recognized the paradoxical connection between increased safety and greater perceptions of evil. The "Tocqueville paradox," named after the nineteenth-century French ...

Thank you. I am sure you are receiving many unpleasant emails and calls. I would like to add to the other and, likely, much smaller list of those who are grateful. My wife and I have three young kids ...

One just needs to Google “torture devices of the Middle Ages” to come out feeling sick to their core. For a large part of human history, torture was commonplace and also viewed as an essential means ...

Vox recently asked 15 experts on moral philosophy and public policy to answer the following question: "What do we do know that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years?" The resulting essays are ...

Some people argue that a company's sole purpose is to maximize profits and that focusing on any other concerns is a violation of fiduciary responsibility. But just because business is a highly ...