Philosophers have long wrestled with what to do about the onlookers and profiteers surrounding those who have done terrible things.

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Cicero insisted that doing good is doing well—that moral rectitude is always what is personally expedient, even if something else seems to be expedient. Dan Klein exposits and explores Cicero’s famous ...

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Thomas Plante (@ThomasPlante) is the Augustin Cardinal Bea, SJ University Professor, professor of psychology and, by courtesy, religious studies at Santa Clara University and an emeritus adjunct ...

Ethics is always about values. In psychology, as in most professions, students are often taught to approach ethics through three frameworks: Virtue ethics (What kind of person should I be?) Deontology ...

Business ethics are often discussed today, especially in light of corporate scandals. Often, that discussion focuses on professional conduct or illegal practices. Ethics touch many elements of ...

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Years ago, I asked the legendary teacher of economics, Professor Bhabatosh Datta, “Sir, What, according to you, is the focal point in the ‘economics’ thinking of your legendary student, Amartya Sen, ...

a) The contribution of at least one religion to issues of war and peace, including the teaching of sacred text(s), the Just War Theory, including principles jus ad bellum, jus in bello and jus post ...

what it is (the belief that values can be defined in terms of some natural property in the world) and its application to absolutism what it is (the belief that basic moral truths are indefinable but ...