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Reason

The listening heart

Benedict XVI | 24 September 2011 |

tags: Benedict XVI, faith, Germany, reason

Positivist reason has excluded faith from politics to the detriment of justice and peace, the Pope told the German Parliament this week.

Have we evolved to argue?

Zac Alstin | 17 May 2011 |

tags: evolution, philosophy, reason

Forget about truth. The reason we can reason is to win arguments, say evolutionary psychologists.

Obesity and the ethicist’s diet

Zac Alstin | 04 January 2011 |

tags: ethics, obesity, pleasure, reason

Is the alarming growth in obesity due to a triumph of pleasure over reason?

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