2. Living by moral principle always makes you nicer: First, it depends on which moral principle. Nazis had theirs, for example: principles they embraced as enthusiastically as Martin Luther King ...
Check out these popular moral principles: Be intolerant of intolerance. Don't listen to people who don't listen. Don't compromise with people who don't compromise. Shame on people who shame people.
Often in our divided world we disagree with someone about a principle. Person A says that what matters is reproductive freedom and B says that what matters is protecting the unborn. Person C says that ...
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 ...
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 ...
For well over a century, Western intellectuals have rather specialized in bad news. There have been important exceptions, of course. But for the most part, recent reports from the fancier intellectual ...
When drafting a treaty on the laws of war at the end of the 19th century, diplomats could not foresee the future of weapons development. But they did adopt a legal and moral standard for judging new ...