Breda O’Brien: Our bodies are who we are. Respect them
Dignity and soul are innate to physicality be that frail, healthy, desirable or otherwise
Chris Johns: Happiness requires economic growth but not excess
Nothing but economic growth has ever lifted humanity out of misery
Is virtue ethics making a comeback, 2,400 years after Aristotle?
Unthinkable: We must find ‘middle way’, says Ireland’s new young philosopher of the year
Budget 2018: Reading between the lines of Donohoe’s speech
Minister’s plans on ‘more appropriate accommodation’, sugar and Brexit decoded
On the equiangular spiral and how the narwhal got its horn
Michael Viney: D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson belongs on the same shelf as Charles Darwin
What Aristotle can teach us about friendship
Something you won’t hear on Facebook: only the virtuous can be true friends
Coping: It is not always wise to forgive and forget
Punishing ourselves with the idea that we ‘should’ be able to forgive is nonsense
Unthinkable: What makes humans valuable if not God?
You can’t escape religious or metaphysical thinking, argues William Desmond
What St Luke would say to Wolfgang Schäuble
The starting point should not be to ask who is to blame but what is likely to work
Unthinkable: Should children be encouraged to doubt?
School debating is no substitute for Socratic inquiry, argues author and campaigner Peter Worley
Unthinkable: Should virtue be taught in schools?
Some 2,400 years after Aristotle, fresh attempts are being made to develop character through the classroom
Have you a moral duty to care for others?
Kant’s lesson for nursing home operators: people shouldn’t be treated simply as a means to an end
Unthinkable: How much loving are you ethically obliged to do?
Why U2 got it right with ‘Love is Blindness’ and the Beatles got it wrong with ‘All You Need Is Love’
Unthinkable: How far should we go to improve ourselves and our morality?
Should we welcome new drugs that could artificially enhance human morals?
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