These conscience-based accounts are exceedingly popular among many people, academics and non-academics alike, perhaps owing to its intuitive appeal: it certainly feels like we don’t do certain things ...

Digital conscience, however, often provides only short-lived moral relief. People share, react, feel their duty is fulfilled ...

History has shown that the law can be used to justify cruelty and oppression, and that morality must come first in order to ...

THE old humanity,” writes an historian of Islam, “had been killed by the new religion.” This is what always happens. True morality, the adepts of each religion tell us, is dependent on their ...

Hobbes is best known for Leviathan (1651), regarded as one of the most influential works in the history of political ...

In his new book, Moral Origins, evolutionary anthropologist Christopher Boehm speculates that human morality emerged along with big game hunting. Basic Books; Jenny Cool Why do people show kindness to ...

In the middle of the 18th century, philosopher and economist Adam Smith wrote that behavior is guided by an “Impartial Spectator.” Almost a century later, St. John Henry Newman addressed the “Moral ...

"A person's moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one's behavior" -- the dictionary definition of "conscience." Whenever I make the common-sense argument that people need to ...

Our ambition should take a back seat to our conscience. The late pastor Eugene Peterson, in a letter to his son, also a pastor, wrote that the primary problem for the Christian leader is to take ...

As inspired as the Constitution is, the Founding Fathers repeatedly declared that it would only be effective in preserving freedom if the people it governs are a moral and religious people. But who ...