By Ross A. Thompson, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Davis What are the ethics of parenting? What are the virtues and values that underlie parents’ ethical responsibility to their children? What (if any) role does the state play in ethical parenting? These questions have...
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By Daniel Lapsley, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame) and Dominic Chaloner, Ph.D. (Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame). Featured photo by Greg Rakozy It would not take long for any gathering of university professors to lament the incurious or desultory intellectual climate...
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By Jennifer Herdt, Ph.D., Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics, Yale Divinity School [no_dropcaps type="normal" color="" font_family="" font_size="" line_height="" width="" font_weight="" font_style="" text_align="" border_color="" background_color="" margin="0"]P[/no_dropcaps]raising someone as a person of integrity is a sign of great respect. But why do we do so? And...
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By Howard Nusbaum, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Chicago People often believe that, by adulthood, the psychology of the way they think, feel, believe, and act is set in stone--that an adult’s personality cannot really change. In part, this may be why people think that...
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By Michael A. Zampelli, S.J., Ph.D. As a university professor and as a Jesuit priest, I am privileged with many and varied opportunities to notice virtue “passing into holy souls.” Whether it is a student trying to cultivate honesty and intellectual perseverance in the frenzy of...
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By Linda Zagzebski, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, University of Oklahoma In an essay on the place of classics in education, Alfred North Whitehead wrote, "Moral education is impossible without the habitual vision of greatness” since “the sense of greatness is the groundwork of morals." These words have...
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By William Fleeson, Ph.D. Dr. Fleeson is Professor of Psychology at Wake Forest University. He earned his B.A. in philosophy from Wisconsin, Ph.D. in psychology from Michigan, and completed postdoctoral training in development from Germany. His interests include moral exceptionality, the nature of personality, borderline personality disorder, consistency,...
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By Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Notre Dame The anthropologist, Colin Turnbull (1984), contrasted his British upbringing with African Mbuti (Bambuti) children, a non-industrialized foraging society (with few possessions) whom he studied. The Mbuti represent the type of society similar to that in which...
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