In the popular imagination, there is still quite a widespread assumption that religion is the source of morality. This is typically based on a belief that religion transmits the moral edicts of a ...

German Proverb of the Day: “First comes the food, then comes morality” highlights how basic human needs can influence ...

In a review article in PNAS Nexus, Claire Robertson and colleagues explore how human morality, which evolved in the context of small in-person groups, functions on the internet with over five billion ...

Keith Nickolaus (Ph.D. in comparative literature from UC Berkeley, 1998; bachelor of arts in literature from UC Santa Cruz, ’86) was invited to the following lecture as a member of the UC Berkeley ...

IMMANUEL KANT saw about as little value in human kindness as US vice-president Dick Cheney does in energy conservation. Cheney mocks conservation as “a sign of personal virtue” that will fail to do ...

Moral dilemmas—balancing one right action against another—are a ubiquitous feature of 21st-century life. However unavoidable, though, they are not unique to our modern age. The challenge of ...

Visual representation of the framework for how the scale and distance afforded by the internet distorts our evolved reactions for compassion for victims and punishment of transgressors in moral ...

Currently I am working on a paper that some of the topics in various threads have touched on, unfortunaely they have steered towards the listed theme so haven't been as usefull to me as a new thread ...

In the popular imagination, there is still quite a widespread assumption that religion is the source of morality. This is typically based on a belief that religion transmits the moral edicts of a ...