“A profound personal meditation on human existence... weaving together... historic and
contemporary thought on the deepest question of all: why are we here?”—Gabor Maté MD …

The purpose of this research was to test the proposition that moral development and social
evolution have progressed together, each enabling the other. Stage 1 and Stage 2 reasons …

The practice of science entails more than just repeated cycles of theory construction,
hypothesis generation, and empirical investigation. Broader, metatheoretical levels of …

Stories of civilization and progress tell us that humans cannot help being destructive, selfish,
and aggressive, which are side effects of progress requiring sanctions and engineering. It …

From a planetary perspective, industrialized humans have become unvirtuous and
holistically destructive in comparison to 99% of human genus existence. Why? This paper …

This article is about when a company should introduce a new ethical norm. By using the Val-
ue-Belief-Norm theory, it is argued that the more an ethical issue threatens an ethical value …

Life on earth is billions of years in the making, yet modern scholarship, including
psychology, establishes baselines from a foreshortened view of the world and the existence …

A statement of moral progress is about a change toward a morally better state and typically
has the following logical structure: x has made (moral) progress regarding y in relation to z …

When should a company introduce a new ethical norm? This article uses the value‐belief‐
norm theory to argue that the more an ethical issue threatens a company's ethical value and …

David Loye pointed us to one of Charles Darwin's aims that often has been overlooked, to
explain the evolution of humanity's moral sense. Most people focus on Darwin's aim to …