We all know that murder, lying, and stealing are wrong. Many of us have also made up our ...
Individual rights morally protect a person against oppression by the powerful (such as th...
Punishment is a harm or deprivation, imposed by a legitimate authority, based on a legiti...
A family is a social institution, a network of intimate relationships, a psychological sh...
Love and sex provide two of the primary motives of human life; the need for intimate huma...
The moral command not to lie is among the simplest of all moral imperatives. Yet its coun...
Property fundamentally marks how we as individuals are related both to other individuals ...
Drugs, a broad and vague term, usually refers to mindaltering chemicals that people inges...
For much of history, philosophers and religious thinkers have believed there are absolute...
In any social arrangement especially in a nation as large and diverse as the United Stat...
Civility, which comes to us from the Latin word for citizen, includes not only the notion...
British and American common law traditionally prohibited abortion only after quickening (...
There are three major traditions in thinking about the ethics of war: Realism sees war a...