Sarah Herrington is a biology major and she is a 2024-25 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own. Ethical decision making is a ...

Happiness and well-being depend on how much volition, choice and control people feel they have over their life—their sense of ...

As a business owner, finding employees you can trust is not just a desire, it's an absolute need. Most of us want to believe that the person sitting in the office is ethical and trustworthy. However, ...

This is the third in a series of posts adapted from chapter 4 of my book, The Decline of the Individual: Reconciling Autonomy with Community. In the last post, we discussed how our tastes, preferences ...

Consequence ethics is a philosophical approach to morality by which the results of an action determine the potential good of the action. Consequence ethics suggests weighing the consequences of ...

Renceh Flojo is a bioengineering major and is a 2022-23 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. As the population's median age trends higher and higher ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein was once asked, “What is your aim in philosophy?” His answer: “To show the fly the way out of the fly bottle.” The goal is not to provide more rules or better solutions, but to ...