Curated category
Moral psychology
- Guilt (emotion)In 1946, Otto Fenichel published The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis to describe how guilt functions as a persistent internal conflict.
- Value (ethics)In 1992, a philosopher named Stanley Riukas published an article titled Inherent and Instrumental Values in Ethics. He argued that some objects are both good…
- Trust (social science)Trust is the belief that another person will do what is expected and is built through repeated consistency. It brings with it a willingness for one party to…
- Moral panicA religious magazine called Preview used the phrase moral panic in 1830 to describe a state of spiritual paralysis. The writer argued that true regeneration…
- Moral blindnessSocrates spoke of moral intellectualism while Plato described emotions clouding moral judgements. Aristotle first used the term ethics for the field of moral…