Clarity comes from the inner soul; morality emerges from one's own conscience. Morality is not imposed from outside. The ...

These conscience-based accounts are exceedingly popular among many people, academics and non-academics alike, perhaps owing to its intuitive appeal: it certainly feels like we don’t do certain things ...

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 ...

"A person's moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one's behavior" -- the dictionary definition of "conscience." Whenever I make the common-sense argument that people need to ...

In his new book, Moral Origins, evolutionary anthropologist Christopher Boehm speculates that human morality emerged along with big game hunting. Basic Books; Jenny Cool Why do people show kindness to ...

If you read between the lines of the June 4 front-page article "The Tortured Lives of Interrogators," you can see the error in the American discussion of torture. We ...

On Jan. 18 on the BBC's "Sunday" program, American Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio said of Catholic personnel in the United States military who could be ordered to attack Greenland: "Within the realm of ...

Our ambition should take a back seat to our conscience. The late pastor Eugene Peterson, in a letter to his son, also a pastor, wrote that the primary problem for the Christian leader is to take ...