Our moral motivations might include a drive towards maximizing overall welfare, consistent with an ethical theory called "utilitarianism." However, people show non-utilitarian judgments in domains as diverse as healthcare decisions, income distributions, and penal laws. Rather than these being deviations from a fundamentally utilitarian psychology, we suggest that our moral judgments are genera...

Data from the National Prison Information Survey show that Brazil is third country in world numbers of people deprived their liberty. These data lead us to think if historical denunciations race-based inequalities made by black movements are not enough, it necessary foster a rapprochement with and current academic intellectual productions, thinkers, committed non-blacks theme. This study review...

I will argue that we humans are built for inequality. Inequality across individuals, to be sure. We are descended from social apes for whom group membership, group exclusion, and social hierarchy are fundamental facts of life. But in an especially deep sense, I want to suggest, we are built for inequality across time. Some puzzles about well-being—at least, the sort of well-being that appears t...

Reports from various sources show that up to the present, in spite of air raids, the war has fortunately not produced the wholesale collapse into neurotic breakdowns which some people undoubtedly expected. This is one reason for venturing to think ahead, beyond the exigencies of the moment, and to consider the part that the mental health services may be able to play in the work of reconstructio...