After studying various moral theories, one is bound to be left wondering what to believe. In this selection from The Elements of Moral Philosophy, James Rachels sketches what he thinks would be a ...

Moral development has been the topic of philosophical and psychological debate for centuries. Psychologist Carol Gilligan's ...

Six hundred years before Carl Menger wrote his Principles, Thomas Aquinas was writing about the role of subjective valuation ...

What is the difference between moral psychology and moral philosophy? Created with Sketch. The examination of moral psychology involves the study of moral philosophy but the field is more ...

But values and emotions are just as essential, if not more -- especially since getting vaccinated involves moral decision-making. Many theories attempt to explain the complex, values-driven ...

This course explores the history of moral philosophy by examining the writings of key thinkers in the Western philosophical canon, including Leibniz, Hume, Kant and Hegal. We will focus on four basic ...

Ethics are a system of moral principles and a branch of philosophy which defines what is good for individuals and society. At its simplest, ethics is a system of moral principles. They affect how ...

Jimmy Lenman is very interested in how relevant an action’s consequences are to determining whether it is right or wrong and to what extent moral relations between ... to issues in political and ...

The course readings for this course come from many countries, they include novels, short stories, plays, and excerpts from classic works of moral philosophy. The readings also span many centuries, ...