"A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. From Sigmund Freud to Lawrence Kohlberg, psychologists have long believed that we begin life as amoral animals. After all, isn't it the parents' role to turn babies into civilized being…
"In this book, Anthony Rudd defends a series of closely related claims about the nature of the self. He argues that the self is a being that constitutes or shapes itself, and that it can only do this non-arbitrarily if it is guided by a sense of the good. This ethical or evaluat…
"On the Southern border of the United States in 2018, the decision was made to implement a separation policy among refugees and migrant families arriving at the border - and so a group of government employees left their homes, bidding farewell to their families as they went to w…
Discussion of the concept of evil in Indian philosophy.
In Exemplarist Moral Theory of Linda Zagzebski presents an original moral theory based on direct reference to exemplars of goodness, whom we identify through the emotion of admiration. Using examples of heroes, saints, and sages, she shows how narratives of exemplars and empiric…
Qu'est-ce que la morale ? Pourquoi agissons-nous de manière morale ? D'où viennent nos idées sur le bien et le mal ? Face à ces questions, les philosophes ont longtemps développé deux stratégies.Certains ont cherché à ramener nos jugements moraux à quelques principes : l'équité,…
