People mistake moral feelings for truths because it makes them more persuasive.

But how does one discern moral truth — what one “ought” to do? Especially for the Child of God, how does one combine scripture, culture, and one’s own experience?

Just as their forefathers did in 1856, Republicans today must have the courage to speak moral truth — even when the political headwinds appear at first glance to be daunting.

Arkes draws upon basic principles of reason, as well as almost universally accepted moral truths, to establish a range of propositions. For example, once one accepts the biological fact that a ...

Hadley Arkes is the Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions emeritus at Amherst College, the founding director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the ...

Truth, moral claims, beauty, dignity, the explanatory value of a research insight—all of these must be subjugated to a prior determination of the historical power or powerlessness of certain ...

The moral certainty Smith aspires to cannot be achieved through political philosophy alone; it requires acknowledgment of a higher source of moral truth.

Scientists have shattered our self-image as principled beings, motivated by moral truths. Some wonder whether our ideals can survive the blow to our vanity.

Thus, if originalists wanted judges to accept their view and reject competitor theories, they had to provide a moral argument based on contested moral truth claims.

Agnes Callard and the politics of public philosophy. In her new book, Callard makes the case that we should all live more philosophically but where does politics fit in? Agnes Callard’s Open ...