In an unassuming office on the fourth floor of Wieboldt Hall, Prof. Candace Vogler is working to answer some of the most vexing problems of human existence: Why are some people happy, and others not?

Virtues 101 is not a new series but a fresh look at integrity and what it means in contemporary society. An appreciation of virtue’s formidable history can highlight its importance in allowing the ...

Throughout the first 12 years of my time teaching moral theology at Benedictine College, students would occasionally ask whether or not they had to follow a law that they believed to be unjust. When ...

When we think of morally upright, virtuous citizens, do we imagine boring do-gooders? Is the idea of being virtuous out-dated and old-fashioned? Or is “being virtuous” still something we should aspire ...

There are costs to living a virtuous life; It requires going without. This is true psychologically, because sacrifice gives virtue meaning. But it's also true mathematically. You pay a price when you ...

MB. HAVELOCK ELLIS began writing books more than thirty years ago, and some of his books might be described as milestones on the way to a more scientific and therefore a saner outlook upon certain ...