In one of my first years of high school teaching, I asked my students to memorize and recite some lines from “Macbeth,” which we were studying. On the day the memorization assignment was due, one of ...
The “Red vs. Blue Button Question” is a viral moral dilemma that challenges people to choose between self-preservation and collective survival, depending on who you ask, and has sparked widespread ...
Silent Hill 2 sees us through the supernatural punishment of James Sunderland, a man who took his wife’s life, smothering her with a pillow as she lay dying of some unknown illness. It’s a shocking ...
The question of re-opening schools should be based on moral and ethical consideration. Charles Binkley is the director of bioethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. One of ...
The buzz in secular circles lately has been about a TED talk by Sam Harris, the author of The End of Faith, and Letter to a Christian Nation. The title of Harris’ talk is “Science can answer moral ...
The 20th century saw two world wars. It may be difficult for historians and philosophers to agree on the reasons for both, or even either, but perhaps we can concur on certain outcomes. It may prove a ...