Moral rules are rigid. The 10 Commandments of the Bible’s Old Testament, for example, include unambiguous prohibitions, such as, “Thou shalt not kill.” Similarly, Kant’s categorical imperative is ...
Every day we encounter circumstances we consider wrong: a starving child, a corrupt politician, an unfaithful partner, a fraudulent scientist. These examples highlight several moral issues, including ...
You check your credit score before applying for an apartment. Your fitness watch tells you whether you slept well enough. A ...
The past 10 or 15 years have not been kind to Canada. Along with a decline in prosperity has come an erosion of the things ...
New research in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science has found that the physical notion of cleanliness significantly reduces the severity of moral judgments, ...
This post was written by Melanie McGrath and Melissa Wheeler, Ph.D. Around the world, governments and citizens are increasingly attending to the ethical implications of our growing development and use ...