Tag: morality

  • Can the Law Ask Too Much? History, Ethics, and the Boundaries of Legal Obligation

    Can the Law Ask Too Much? History, Ethics, and the Boundaries of Legal Obligation

    What happens when laws demand more than people can give? Discover how ancient and modern thinkers shaped our understanding of justice, responsibility, and moral limits

  • Are we “good” creatures?

    Is the capacity for ethics—the proclivity to judge human actions as either right or wrong—determined by the biological nature of human beings? And, are the systems or codes of ethical norms accepted by human beings biologically determined? In this fascinating and thought-provoking presentation, Templeton prize recipient and eminent evolutionary biologist and philosopher Francisco J. Ayala…