To have moral worth, our actions must be motivated by duty, rather than mere sympathy or inclination. As a paradigm of moral ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. If there is going to be a moral imperative about something, we ...

Andrew Cooper’s path into the world of patent law is anything but conventional. As a Black man in a predominantly white field, Cooper’s entry into the space was marked by a series of unexpected ...

Immanuel Kant defined moral imperative as a principle that compels that person to act, saying it’s a kind of categorical imperative. Later thinkers took the imperative to originate in conscience, as ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Taken from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the inscription above Angell Hall reads: “Religion, ...

The results are in — after students set up an encampment on Parkhurst Hall’s lawn and demanded that it respond, the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility has finally published its evaluation ...

It is a basic tenet of philosophy, known as Kant’s categorical imperative, that you can decide the morality or immorality of a particular course of action by applying the following test: Could the ...

More than two-thirds of the CEOs of large, staffed foundations in the United States believe foundations have the potential to make a significant difference in society. That’s the good (and perhaps ...

Today’s crises – endless war, environmental catastrophe, desperate poverty and more – can seem so daunting that they paralyze action rather than inspire activism. But the imperative to do something in ...

Founder of Repairers of the Breach and National Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign; Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Studies The United States is the wealthiest, most powerful ...

Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. Morals are slippery things. We all claim to have them, but somehow we misplace them at the ...

With the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, will the world repeat the Holocaust Olympics of 1936? There are haunting parallels between the Berlin Games and the Beijing Games that are scheduled to take ...