One thing I feel I should be clear about up front: I have always liked “Beavis and Butt-Head.” You might not expect that a fondness for the 1990s MTV cartoon series, with its grunting, cretinous ...

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals Immanuel Kant - How should human beings behave toward one another? How must we behave? One of the most influential thinkers of the Western ...

Ancient Greek philosophy was divided into three sciences: physics, ethics, and logic. This division is perfectly suitable to the nature of the thing; and the only improvement that can be made in it is ...

Philosophy can provide insights regarding raising a moral child. For example, Immanuel Kant, in Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, wrote that "the only qualified good thing is a good will." By ...

This is the third in a series of posts adapted from chapter 4 of my book, The Decline of the Individual: Reconciling Autonomy with Community. In the last post, we discussed how our tastes, preferences ...