One thing I feel I should be clear about up front: I have always liked “Beavis and Butt-Head.” You might not expect that a fondness for the 1990s MTV cartoon series, with its grunting, cretinous ...

So-called evolutionary error theorists, such as Michael Ruse and Richard Joyce, have argued that naturalistic accounts of the moral sentiments lead us to adopt an ...

Kant’s final work in moral philosophy, Die Metaphysik der Sitten, currently occupies the centre of scholarly attention. One of the reasons for this is the lack of consensus over how to understand the ...

Ancient Greek philosophy was divided into three sciences: physics, ethics, and logic. This division is perfectly suitable to the nature of the thing; and the only improvement that can be made in it is ...

Ancient Greek philosophy was divided into three sciences: physics, ethics, and logic. This division is perfectly suitable to the nature of the thing; and the only improvement that can be made in it is ...

Philosophy can provide insights regarding raising a moral child. For example, Immanuel Kant, in Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, wrote that "the only qualified good thing is a good will." By ...

This is the third in a series of posts adapted from chapter 4 of my book, The Decline of the Individual: Reconciling Autonomy with Community. In the last post, we discussed how our tastes, preferences ...