Understanding the origins of morality, like all behavioral traits, requires an evolutionary perspective, taking into account both biological and cultural evolution. I find it helpful to simplify this ...

Frans de Waal, who used his study of the inner lives of animals to build a powerful case that apes think, feel, strategize, pass down culture and act on moral sentiments – and that humans are not ...

Exploring the origins and definitions of morality and how it guides human behavior.

The argument for individual conscience: Only a deep internal exploration can distinguish between right and wrong, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral, virtue and sin, honor and disgrace, etc.

The British philosophers looked elsewhere for moral authority. Smith, Himmelfarb notes, observed in his Theory of Moral Sentiments, “Religion, even in its rudest form, gave a sanction to the rules of ...