Defining moral courage as "the quality of mind and spirit that enables one to face up to ethical challenges firmly and confidently," Kidder, president of the Institute for Global Ethics, offers a ...

Whether it was a riot at a petrol station in Königsdorf, an attack on a taxi driver in Essenbach or an attack on a pregnant woman in Marktredwitz, Münchberg near Hof, courageous people were once again ...

In 2015, Stanford graduate students Carl-Frederik Arndt and Peter Jonsson (both from Sweden) found Chanel Miller being sexually assaulted while unconscious. As soon as they got a sense that something ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Standing up for a value often takes moral courage. Moral courage is a not only a teachable skill; it is ...

James Risen is a 59-year-old veteran journalist who has built a career telling stories to the American public that American presidents would rather not have disclosed. He and a colleague won a ...

Prof. Kristen Monroe discusses the socio-psychological and ethical aspects of moral courage. Is moral courage a random, adventitious phenomenon, or can people be socialized to heed their ethical ...

Leading with character requires moral courage, a core value that is difficult to clearly define. It’s often said that moral courage is doing the right thing when no one is looking. I don’t agree with ...

It started with an innocent mistake. Texas entrepreneur Chris Bentley had founded a company to buy drilling rights for oil and gas. He realized that a batch of letters he’d sent to landowners, ...

For several decades, there has been interest in psychology in helping others, and in altruism—unselfish caring and helping. I have studied "active bystandership" both in relation to the need or ...