Public fear, and those responsible for creating or promoting it, are major topics of discussion these days. The sociological and criminological concept known as moral panic offers valuable insights ...

Kohlberg's theory of moral development outlines six stages across three levels, showing how people progress in moral reasoning from obeying rules to following universal ethical principles. Parents and ...

How can people be taught to be good? What does “good” mean? “Moral education,” the education ministry explains on its website, “aims to develop a Japanese citizen who will never lose the consistent ...

Morality is “like the temple on the hill of human nature,” writes the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. “It is our most sacred attribute.” People cherish this sacred sense of right and wrong, put it ...

1. Moral relativism is avoidable: While we often talk as though we have the last word on morality, no one ever really gets the last word for the simple reason that we can always challenge the morality ...