Military Archbishop Timothy Broglio's recent statements on conscientious objection demonstrate the relevance of Catholic ...

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 ...

"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 ...

God has programmed into every individual His moral code. It takes the form of conscience. And it is very wise to listen to it. But many people do not. Some people ignore their conscience until it ...

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 ...

History has shown that the law can be used to justify cruelty and oppression, and that morality must come first in order to ...

Every nation should have a conscience. But not all nations are blessed with one. The conscience of a nation can be a singular individual – a living, breathing human. Or it can be an institution, like ...

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 ...

“We may now state the minimum conception: Morality is, at the very least, the effort to guide one’s conduct by reason…while giving equal weight to the interests of each individual affected by one’s ...