This essay proposes and defends a descriptive definition of morality. Under this definition, a moral system is a system of rules, psychological states, and modes of character development that performs ...

One definition of morality that I like is that the greatest good is what does the most good for the most number of people, and the greatest evil is what does the most harm to the most number of people ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue. Founded in 1890, Ethics publishes scholarly work in moral, political, and legal philosophy from a variety of intellectual ...

Morality is a deep subject. Books with thousands upon thousands of words have been written, and still there is no concrete conclusion on what it necessarily means to be moral. One thing I think we can ...

In a recent interview for the BBC2 series Inside Obama's White House," President Obama sounded somewhat wistful as he spoke to an interviewer about how he has tried to use his voice "to move things ...