This post is in response to How Moral Principles Make Us Dumb By Jeremy E. Sherman Ph.D. Two weeks ago I said, "I never met a moral principle I could trust." One reader responded: Generalizations and ...

We’ve all grown up with a sense of what’s “right” and what’s “wrong.” Don’t lie. Don’t steal. Be kind. Respect your elders. But have you ever stopped and asked yourself—why do we believe these things?

Ethics represent the beliefs of your external community, while your morals are your personal, internal sense of right and wrong. That's not to say there isn't a lot of overlap, and, in many cases, the ...

Choosing to live with strong morals isn't always easy, but doing so models how to be a good, dependable person for others. Everyone has a set of morals that they live by, whether they realize it or ...

Recently, I’ve been lucky enough to be around a lot of people who I would regard as moral heroes. They spend their lives fighting poverty, caring for the young or the sick, or single-mindedly ...

I spent the summer of 2011 as an undergraduate researcher at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, in Colorado. My job was to collect burying beetles—necrophagous critters with wing cases the ...

In today’s society, are we doing our children a service by teaching them ethical and moral behaviors? There are so many people who don’t have a strong moral compass who do quite well in our society.

It started with an innocent mistake. Texas entrepreneur Chris Bentley had founded a company to buy drilling rights for oil and gas. He realized that a batch of letters he’d sent to landowners, ...

Life isn't easy for those with good morals and values. Having to constantly hide who they are out of fear of being taken advantage of, there are many things adults with actual morals are tired of at ...