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Experiencing gratitude and appreciating various things seems essential to happiness and a good life. Why is this? What exactly is gratitude? Is it an…
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We often hear of people suffering from “information overload.” To what exactly are we referring? Is it just that our brains are too slow to process the…
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Do the ends ever justify the means? Assuming, for example, that lying, torturing, stealing, and murder are wrong, are such actions justified in rare…
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Our next Socrates Exchange discussion begins! This time we ask we ask “are there ethical limits to biotechnology?” From aspirin to artificial limbs many…
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Are there some forms of expression that are simply too crude or too offensive to be allowed to be disseminated? What kinds of things, if any, should be…
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Citizens have a role to elect their representatives in, but then what is the role of the representative? Where should federal power end and state power…
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Are non-human animals merely a natural resource for human use? Do we have a responsibility to treat animals with dignity or to consider their suffering?…
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Each of us within a particular religion think our religious beliefs are true, but how do we make sense of our neighbor, who thinks the same about her…
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Since the beginning of time, human beings have been making tools to make life easier, better, faster or more efficient, but is that always a good thing?…
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Are we an excessively individualistic- and even selfish- culture? Does New Hampshire's "Live Free or Die" ethos place too much emphasis on the rights of…