Let me begin with a puzzle about the Kantian notion of recognition respect - the respect due to any person regardless of merit (moral or otherwise). It is sometimes thought that the object of respect, ...

origins of the concept of duty (acting morally according to the good regardless of consequences) in deontological and absolutist approaches to ethics what it is (a command to act to achieve a desired ...

Mainstream economics has long struggled to model ethical behaviour, including what is perhaps its simplest type, altruism. The standard assumption of homo economicus, an agent who maximizes his ...

Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, is quoted in your report “Trump promises to end forced separation of families” (June 21) as saying that it is a “moral imperative” to stop separating ...

Despite his love of hosting, conversation, and fine dining, Kant’s house was unadorned and austere. He had only one picture, which hung above his bureau. This picture was of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who ...

This section will introduce and define the basic concepts I will use. Kant was an enormously systematic thinker, and the ideas I isolate are, within his own work, embedded in a perhaps uniquely ...