DAVID Brooks visited Seattle to give a brilliant keynote address at the Downtown Business Breakfast hosted by Seattle Pacific University, after which he gave another brilliant public lecture on campus ...

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — Getting people to think about morality as a matter of objective facts rather than subjective preferences may lead to improved moral behavior, Boston College researchers report ...

IN THE West Wing episode “The Women of Qumar,” the White House concludes a $1.5 billion arms sale to the fictional country of Qumar on the Persian Gulf in exchange for an extended lease on a base for ...

For at least a century now, Christians in the United States have been trying to be “realistic” about their relations to the world in which they find themselves. In the Social Gospel era, that meant ...

Alone among animals, humans have access to an immediate, first-hand emotional perception of the “wrongness” of actions or agency of the self, experienced as a sense of guilt or shame. We are ...

People who are primed with "moral realism" may be motivated to better moral behavior. Researchers assess the impact of meta-ethics on everyday decision-making in a new report. Getting people to think ...