A business owner or manager has multiple responsibilities, including legal ones, such as paying taxes, as well as moral responsibilities. Moral responsibilities may be individual, meaning each person ...

Ethics represent the beliefs of your external community, while your morals are your personal, internal sense of right and wrong. That's not to say there isn't a lot of overlap, and, in many cases, the ...

Arguments over Critical Race Theory and anti-racism are in the news every day. Folks take as much offense with what it means as they do with how it's forced upon them daily. Nowhere are these fights ...

When we look back at the beliefs and practices of our ancestors, we are often shocked at what they found morally acceptable: the public torture of criminals, the trading of slaves, and the subjugation ...

We’ve all grown up with a sense of what’s “right” and what’s “wrong.” Don’t lie. Don’t steal. Be kind. Respect your elders. But have you ever stopped and asked yourself—why do we believe these things?

Conceptual frameworks drawn from theories that have shaped the study of ethics over centuries can help us recognize and describe ethical issues when we encounter them. In this way, a basic grasp of ...

Defining moral courage as "the quality of mind and spirit that enables one to face up to ethical challenges firmly and confidently," Kidder, president of the Institute for Global Ethics, offers a ...

During my 38 years as an ethicist, never have I seen so many ethical questions asked continuously by so many: Who gets the ventilator? Who gets the bed? Who receives the best personal protective ...