Morals & Values

Seven moral intuitions, from care and fairness to loyalty, sanctity and liberty. Discover which speak loudest in you, and how your profile compares with typical outlooks.

Moral Foundations Theory proposes that human morality is built on several intuitive foundations, each a sensitivity that helped our ancestors live together: caring for the vulnerable, treating people as equals, rewarding effort, sticking together, respecting roles, keeping things sacred and resisting domination. People and cultures weigh them differently.

Freedom or security, success or service, pleasure or tradition? Find out which of the ten basic human values guide you most, and where your priorities pull against each other.

Values are the broad goals that guide your choices: what you aim for, what you defend and what you will give up for something else. This test measures the ten basic values identified by the social psychologist Shalom Schwartz in research across dozens of countries, and shows how they fit together on a circle where neighbors support each other and opposites compete.

Twenty-eight hard cases, from the runaway tram to the self-driving car. Discover which moral framework your instincts follow, and which philosophers would nod along.

You are about to face a series of moral dilemmas, from the famous runaway tram to problems that only exist because of modern technology, followed by a few general statements. For each dilemma, pick the answer closest to what you would actually do or believe, and read the reasons carefully: two options may lead to the same action for very different reasons. There are no trick questions and no correct answers; philosophers have argued over every one of these cases for decades or centuries.