The teachings of Iglesia Ni Cristo ask its followers to demonstrate their faith by complying with God's commandments. Faith is therefore imbued with accountability—to themselves, their conscience, and ...

In an interesting piece about the independence of morality and religion, my fellow Psychology Today blogger Gad Saad rightly reports that many religious people believe that morality is an example of ...

Eric Hanson, professor of political science, Santa Clara University, gave this presentation at a panel on Global Ethical Leadership, May 6, 2004. He is the author of The Catholic Church in World ...

“Vertical morality in Christianity is the idea that our ethics and behaviors have a duty to please God alone. We get our ...

The campus convenes to hear Ethics Center guest Cardinal Oscar Andres Maradiaga Rodriguez (third from the left) on the Church of mercy. As an ethics center in a Jesuit university, we have a special ...

Dickens’s Christmas novella is often read as a reassuring parable about our ability to change — but the whole point of Scrooge’s ghostly visitations is how dramatically his moral life needs to be ...

David Edmonds, a Distinguished Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and a philosopher, is the editor of Future Morality (OUP, Dec.), a new anthology of 24 articles ...

To put it simply, ethics represents the moral code that guides a person’s choices and behaviors throughout their life. The idea of a moral code extends beyond the individual to include what is ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook If God does not exist, everything is permitted – this is the belief of Ivan Karamazov, a fictional ...

As a Jesuit university, Georgetown has always had a strong connection to religious traditions and ethics. But when drugs are involved, deeply held beliefs can seem dizzying and contradictory. From ...

THE state finds its warrant for the establishment of free common schools in the well-founded assumption that the education of the young is necessary to good citizenship and the safety of free ...

THE old humanity,” writes an historian of Islam, “had been killed by the new religion.” This is what always happens. True morality, the adepts of each religion tell us, is dependent on their ...