Entertaining and enlightening as David P. Barash’s essay was (“Kant Isn’t Just for Kindergartners,” The Review, June 8), it distorted the meaning of the categorical imperative to a significant degree.

Michael Lerner is typical of those who require everyone to condemn the attack on the Metzer Kibbutz, where a Palestinian went out of his way to kill two children being shielded by their mother. In ...

Before I jump back into the conversation about sexual ethics that has unfolded on the Web in recent days, inspired by Emily Witt's n+1 essay "What Do You Desire?" and featuring a fair number of my ...

Immanuel Kant contrasts legal guilt with ethical guilt. Discover why, in ethics, a wrongful thought is as serious as a ...

Though we cherish freedom and equality, there are human relations we commonly take to be morally permissible despite the fact that they essentially involve an inequality specifically of freedom, i.e., ...

Virtuous thinking, Kant wrote, is like good carpentry: It builds strong ideas in harmony with one another. Jackyenjoyphotography/Moment via Getty Images What makes a life virtuous? The answer might ...