Kant is famous, among other things, for trying to put morality onto a rational basis. Today, Kantian ethics is a top-three ...

When I was 17, I searched my school’s small library for books that might feed my budding curiosity about philosophy. There was only one: Stephan Körner’s introduction to the Prussian giant of the ...

Deontological (duty-based) ethics are concerned with what people do, not with the consequences of their actions. Do the right thing. Do it because it's the right thing to do. Don't do wrong things.

In April, 1745, God appeared to a Swedish civil servant named Emanuel Swedenborg in a London tavern. Swedenborg was no wild-eyed prophet but, rather, a fifty-seven-year-old scientist and engineer who ...