A majority of all adults (58%) believe that overeating is “not a moral issue,” while pluralities say this about gambling (42%) and sex between unmarried adults (37%). About the Survey Results for this ...

The Central Intelligence Agency regularly asks its applicants whether they have ever illegally downloaded music. They claim not to disqualify applicants who check the “yes” box for this question, but ...

In the modern era, the idea of moral relativism — that moral judgments are contingent on cultural, historical, or personal circumstances — has gained considerable traction.

"Do you ever think that people like us, who are serious, now feel like fools?" asked that great philosopher Bill Moyers recently. I got what he was saying immediately.

The reporting of the Breivik case in the past few days - as Norwegian justice stoutly refuses to compromise its values by silencing the defendant - and most recently seeing the media of other ...

christianity and morals; the mistakes of modern charity.sermon by rev. dr. h. c. potter--hospital compared with the home--the average tenement-house adisgrace to our civilization--heal the sick by ...

In "Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?" Harvard professor/author Michael J. Sandel provides philosophical tools for hacking through thickets of modern moral dilemmas. Sandel discusses his book ...

Fairy tales haven’t traditionally been vehicles for feminist thinking. But HBO is revising a few of them to replace some of the damsel-in-distress themes with a bit more “Buffy.” … ...