Moral* principles do more harm than good. We apply them self-servingly and selectively. They operate at the wrong level of abstraction, distracting us from the right level. I'm deeply committed to ...

A healthy economy enables citizens to fulfill their basic obligations—moral as well as financial. These obligations include providing for themselves and their families and fulfilling responsibilities ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is moral judgment accomplished by intuition or conscious reasoning? An answer demands a detailed account of the moral principles in question. We investigated three principles that guide moral ...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur, in a December 1951 speech, said: “In this day of gathering storms, as moral deterioration of political power spreads its growing infection, it is essential that every spiritual ...

This paper examines whether the modern bioethical principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice proposed by Beauchamp and Childress are existent in, compatible with, or ...

Readers of this fish wrap last week were subjected to another onslaught of anti-religious fervor from Col. Musty. As in: “We must return to reason, science, and logic to form policies for a better ...

In “Faith That Upholds Humanity—and Liberty” (Houses of Worship, Dec. 30), Andrew Klavan decries physicist Stephen Hawking’s statement that “the laws of gravity and quantum theory allow universes to ...

Amid controversy about generative AI programs giving wrong, biased, or potentially dangerous responses to queries, Anthropic reveals how it is training ChatGPT rival Claude to give safe, helpful ...

The nomination of Matt Gaetz to be the next U.S. attorney general is an example of politicians asking us to take their moral convictions more seriously than they do. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks at ...