Books on Mahabharata | Morality tales. ... In this book, Doniger returns, after 50 years of wide-ranging scholarship, to the themes and ideas of her early workâ women, ...

A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE (312 pp.)—Werner Bergengruen—Thames & Hudson ($3). The evil that the people of Cassano did one Renaissance summer may not have lived after them, but it certainly ...

Pantheon Books. Moral grandstanding certainly exists, but it seems unlikely that people express outrage online primarily to win social rewards. The big problem is that social media is unrewarding.

Lord Jonathan Sacks’ latest, and last, book, Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times, is an ethical will of sorts, in the form of a comprehensive, erudite survey of moral philosophy ...

Books: Moral War. 5 minute read. TIME. May 30, 1938 12:00 AM GMT-4. THE CROWNING OF A KING—Arnold Zweig—Viking ($2.50). In Tolstoy’s War and Peace, war is essentially a moral struggle.

The book's description lays out precisely what Beastly Morality is all about. We have come to regard nonhuman animals as beings of concern, and we even grant them some legal protections.

Jessica Winter reviews two recent books, “The Quickening” and “The Parenthood Dilemma,” which consider the ethics of procreation in the age of man-made climate change.

Correcting and policing queer virtuousness has become all too common. But in books, queer writers exhausted by this morality are having fun pushing back.

This excerpt comes from the book Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground by Kurt Gray, social psychologist and professor of sociology and neuroscience at ...