A letter from July 29 indicated that the social issues of gay marriage and abortion are examples of a downward, sliding scale of morality by giving, in their words, “laughable and outlandish” examples ...

Political philosophers have long recognized the paradoxical connection between increased safety and greater perceptions of evil. The "Tocqueville paradox," named after the nineteenth-century French ...

To have moral worth, our actions must be motivated by duty, rather than mere sympathy or inclination. As a paradigm of moral worth, Kant upheld the hard-hearted person who acts purely out of duty.

Vox recently asked 15 experts on moral philosophy and public policy to answer the following question: "What do we do know that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years?" The resulting essays are ...

Victoria Williamson has received research grant funding from Forces in Mind Trust. Neil Greenberg has received grant funding from the Forces in Mind Trust and the Ministry of Defence . He is also ...