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?

There are numerous tests or approaches to identify your personality type or strengths. I think we need VirtueSeeker™ to identify the moral virtues that a person possesses and wants to possess. As a ...

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 ...

Discussions of morality are typically characterized by ideas about justice, fairness, and the standards we craft for ourselves to navigate the world with those principles in mind. However, according ...

Part of being human is making mistakes and doing things wrong. People with solid morals try to act according to their values so as to not cause harm. When they do something that harms someone, they ...