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ABSTRACT: Our consideration of moral issues in the helping professions should go beyond decision-making in particular cases. We need a more basic set of moral attitudes that can provide the context ...

Defending the government is a lesser crime; even public relations agencies and hired propagandists can do that. What has ...

A society sustained by coercion contaminates its morality by institutionalizing acts that lack the voluntariness honor requires. By aggressing against its ...

In many public situations, we make judgments about people’s commitment to carry through on their stated views. Politicians express commitments to issues ranging from immigration to same-sex marriage.

Recent high-profile media coverage has prompted public recognition that cannabis in particular forms can have beneficial medical effects for some conditions such as epilepsy. There are two main ...

Most humans are grossed out by things like oozing sores or rotten meat, and there might well be an evolutionary basis for staying away from these harmful things. But it might go deeper: that disgust ...

Neoclassical economics assumes that we are all clearheaded and logical, able to make farsighted, rational calculations that maximize our utility. But behavioral economists have built a strong case ...

It is an organization whose basic function is to periodically issue leftist tracts disguised as theological reflection. After what it calls the “catastrophe” of the American elections, the ...

MORAL BASIS….Two cheers for Colin Powell: Powell lent his support to three Republican senators Thursday saying that Congress must not pass Bush’s proposal to redefine U.S. compliance with the Geneva ...