Harsh treatment of others can reflect an underlying motivation to view the world as fair and just and also a dispositional tendency to believe in justice. However, there is a critical need to refine ...

Benevolence is the humanist virtue par excellence. Influential veil-of-ignorance theories of justice, issuing from the main streams of the humanist ethics of the Enlightenment, exclude benevolence ...

Like many other developing countries, the problem of inadequacy of welfare measures and core social services in Pakistan frequently baffles policymakers. The imperfect functioning of market and ...

The first challenge is deciding prospectively which groups to include to ensure a meaningful degree of diversity. No single study is likely to be large enough to encompass the full diversity of the ...

Morton Deutsch, eminent psychologist, Columbia University professor, mentor extraordinaire, and one of the founders of the field of conflict resolution, died last March at age 97. Deutsch spent his ...

Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.

For the longest time I was convinced that fairness in society was a noble goal and led to equality. Fair legal processes were worth fighting for, and as a result our lives would be better. I still ...

Utilitarianism is one of several ethical theories addressing the question of how to assess the “goodness” of any state of affairs. In the history of ideas, the most distinguished proponents and ...

THE LATEST Social Weather Stations survey figures on hunger are truly alarming. More than 20 percent of Filipino families (or more than 4 million families) have reported experiencing involuntary ...