Digital conscience, however, often provides only short-lived moral relief. People share, react, feel their duty is fulfilled ...

These conscience-based accounts are exceedingly popular among many people, academics and non-academics alike, perhaps owing to its intuitive appeal: it certainly feels like we don’t do certain things ...

History has shown that the law can be used to justify cruelty and oppression, and that morality must come first in order to ...

"A person's moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one's behavior" -- the dictionary definition of "conscience." Whenever I make the common-sense argument that people need to ...

Our ambition should take a back seat to our conscience. The late pastor Eugene Peterson, in a letter to his son, also a pastor, wrote that the primary problem for the Christian leader is to take ...

Hobbes is best known for Leviathan (1651), regarded as one of the most influential works in the history of political ...

THE old humanity,” writes an historian of Islam, “had been killed by the new religion.” This is what always happens. True morality, the adepts of each religion tell us, is dependent on their ...

When I look at our country and compare it to the nation of my childhood, it is shocking in many ways. I don’t remember our country or our Congress being divided. I certainly don’t remember people ...

In his new book, Moral Origins, evolutionary anthropologist Christopher Boehm speculates that human morality emerged along with big game hunting. Basic Books; Jenny Cool Why do people show kindness to ...

The Final Rule makes clear that OCR has the authority to handle and investigate complaints of alleged violations of the federal health care conscience protection statutes. Under this authority, OCR is ...