Please, go read Conor Friedersdorf’s lengthy meditation on – well, he covers quite a number of topics, from the difficulty sustaining a post-collegiate conversation about the cornerstones of one’s ...

Calling German philosopher Immanuel Kant’s ethics “terribly poor,” Chinese philosophy scholar Han Dongping has become the target of criticism for an article with a bold yet somewhat overweening title.

origins of the concept of duty (acting morally according to the good regardless of consequences) in deontological and absolutist approaches to ethics what it is (a command to act to achieve a desired ...

Let me begin with a puzzle about the Kantian notion of recognition respect - the respect due to any person regardless of merit (moral or otherwise). It is sometimes thought that the object of respect, ...

Mainstream economics has long struggled to model ethical behaviour, including what is perhaps its simplest type, altruism. The standard assumption of homo economicus, an agent who maximizes his ...

She is of the opinion that “states must pay attention to the consequences of their actions, but must respect human rights in the process.” “Kantian ethics has resources for taking consequences into ...