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Courtney at Feministing is quite skeptical of marriage but characterizes Elizabeth Gilbert (of Eat, Pray, Love fame) as making a relatively compelling case for “the radical potential to be found in the privacy of the family unit” in her new memoir, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage: [Gilbert] writes, “It is not we as individuals, [...]
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Marriage As Rooted In Pre-Social Goods And As Having Radical Potential
June 1st, 2010 
Daniel Fincke Moral Actions, Moral Sentiments, Moral Motives, and Moral Justifications: More On The Nun Excommunicated For Approving A Life-Saving Abortion
May 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In reply to my post on the story of Sister Margaret McBride whom the Catholic Church “automatically excommunicated” for helping to give the go-ahead to an abortion claimed necessary for saving the life of an 11 week pregnant mother, I have already received two interesting replies. The first challenged the medical argument for the necessity of [...]
Posted in Abortion, Applied Ethics, Authority, Autonomy, Bio-Medical Ethics, Christianity, Contemporary Ethics, Duty, Ethics, Featured, Feminism, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Secularism, Teleology, Virtues, Women's Issues 
Tags: Action Theory, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Consequentialism, Doctrine of Double Effect, Excommunication, John Garvie, Moral Judgment, Moral Justification, Moral Motivation, Moral Sentiments, Phoenix Archdiocese, Sister Margaret McBride, Vice, Vicious Motives, Vicious Sentiments, Virtue Ethics 
5 Comments »Christian Anti-Kissing Propaganda
May 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke (via) I find this really creepy, perverse, and emotionally poisonous, having at one point in my life been indoctrinated into such unhealthy and irrational, extremist ways of thinking. As hilariously corny as the ham handed filmmaking is and as laughably naive as the film’s apparent morally hysterical fear of sex is, the consequences of such [...]
Posted in Autonomy, Ethics, Featured, Love, Moral Psychology, Videos Tags: "Pamela's Prayer", Anti-Natural Ethics, Asceticism, Christian Anti-Kissing Attitudes, Kissing, Moral Absolutism, Moral Hysteria, Moral Panic, Moralism, Possessiveness, Premarital Kissing, Premarital Sex, Psychological Repression, Repression, Sexual Repression No Comments »A Brief Overview Of My Dissertation
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Nietzsche’s writings on morality are famously provocative and controversial. His criticisms of morality in both theory and practice are so extensive and rhetorically scathing that many philosophers assume that he can offer little or nothing constructive to moral philosophy. Additionally, his glorification of the will to power sounds prima facie like a celebration of excessively [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Autonomy, Contemporary Ethics, Cultural Secularism, Duty, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Featured, Historical Ethics, Historical Philosophy, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Morality, New Atheism, Nietzsche, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Virtues Tags: "On Deriving and Defending An Axiology of the Will To Power", Absolutism, Christian Morality, Consequentialism, Dissertation, Duty, Happiness, Heteronomy, Immoralism, Indirect Consequentialism, Instrumental Goods, Intrinsic Goods, Jonathan Haidt, Kantian Moral Philosophy, Moral Absolutism, Pleasure, Self-Overcoming, Virtue, Will to Power 4 Comments »Philosophical Ethics: A Possible Kantian Formula For Determining The Permissibility Of Self-Defense
October 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In a series of posts this semester, I am going to blog all (or almost all) the lecture topics for the two Philosophical Ethics classes I am teaching this semester. Each of these posts will primarily explicate the reading or a theme that dominated class discussion in a way that should be accessible to novices [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Autonomy, Contemporary Ethics, Duty, Ethics, Featured, Historical Ethics, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Torture Tags: Categorical Imperative, Christine Korsgaar, Counter-Coercion, Immanuel Kant, Kant's Murderer At the Door Example, Lies For Good Ends, Lying, Permissible Lying, Right To Lie, Self-Defense, White Lies 3 Comments »Philosophical Ethics: “But Why MUST I?” Kant’s Ironic Formulation Of Liberty As Duty
October 4th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In a series of posts this semester, I am going to blog all (or almost all) the lecture topics for the two Philosophical Ethics classes I am teaching this semester. Each of these posts will primarily explicate the reading or a theme that dominated class discussion in a way that should be accessible to novices [...]
Posted in Authority, Autonomy, Duty, Ethics, Featured, Historical Ethics, Historical Philosophy, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Secularism Tags: Deontology, Kant, Nietzsche, Rational Action, Reason No Comments »Philosophical Ethics: Kant, The Good Will, And Rational Actions
October 4th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In a series of posts this semester, I am going to blog all (or almost all) the lecture topics for the two Philosophical Ethics classes I am teaching this semester. Each of these posts will primarily explicate the reading or a theme that dominated class discussion in a way that should be accessible to novices [...]
Camels With Hammers Philosophy
September 27th, 2009 Daniel Fincke After this introductory paragraph, every sentence in this post will summarize and link a different post expressing my views, primarily on topics related to atheism, philosophy, and ethics—which are the primary preoccupations of this blog. I am organizing all of these links into this one summary statement of “Camels With Hammers’ Philosophy.” This post will [...]
Posted in About This Blog, Applied Ethics, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Authoritarianism, Authority, Autonomy, Christianity, Contemporary Ethics, Cultural Secularism, Duty, Epistemology, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Evolutionary Psychology, Faith, Featured, Fundamentalism, God, Historical Ethics, Historical Philosophy, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Metaethics, Metaphysics, Moral Psychology, Nietzsche, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Political Secularism, Politics, Psychology, Religion and Science, Religious Extremism, Religious Rights, Religious Secularism, Secularism, Sociobiology, Teleology, Virtues, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: Camels With Hammers 3 Comments »An Argument For Gay Marriage And Against Traditionalism
July 27th, 2009 Daniel Fincke I am puzzled by appeals to history to oppose gay marriage because history is only the story of what people have done and never of itself directly tells us anything about right or wrong. Results of history can serve as warnings about effective and uneffective approaches to goal x or goal y but what people [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Autonomy, Civil Rights, Cultural Secularism, Culture, Ethics, Evolutionary Psychology, Gay Marriage, Homosexuality, Jesus, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Political Secularism, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Religious Secularism, Same Sex Marriage, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Social Psychology, Sociobiology, Sociology, Virtues Tags: Attractions, Aversions, Beauty, Civil Unions, Definition of Marriage, Disgust, Gay Adoption, Homophobia, Irrational Moral Judgments, John Richardson, Jonathan Haidt, Joshua Greene, King David, Michel Foucault, Misogyny, Nathan The Prophet, Nietzsche, Polygamy, Separate But Equal, Socrates, Traditionalism, Ugliness 12 Comments »Kantian Reasons To Lie To The Murderer At The Door?
July 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Michael Cholbi thinks he has some: First, the lie is not meant to advance the happiness either of the liar or of the potential murder victim, but to thwart the abuse of the victim’s autonomy that her murder would represent. Hence, if lying to the murderer is manipulation at all, it is manipulation in the [...]
Posted in Autonomy, Duty, Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Rape, Sex Tags: Autonomy, Deontology, Kant, Kant's Symmetry Thesis, Liberalism, Lying, Masturbation, Michael Cholbi, Moral Dilemmas, PEA Soup No Comments »“Should You Try To Cure Gays?”
July 13th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Autonomy, Christianity, Ethics, Fundamentalism, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Moral Psychology, Religion, Videos Tags: BBC One, Curing Homosexuality, The Big Questions No Comments »Towards A “Non-Moral” Standard Of Ethical Evaluation
July 6th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In a previous post, I raised some remarks from psychologist of morality Jonathan Haidt, in which he discussed his theory that moral thinking appeals to 5 essential modules hardwired into our brains by evolution. In the interview I cited from a couple of years ago he only referred to 4 of the 5 modules but [...]
Posted in Atheistic Ethics, Authority, Autonomy, Duty, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Evolutionary Psychology, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Sociobiology, Virtues Tags: Arete, Aristotle, Care, Equality, Excellence, Fairness, Harm, Human Flourishing, Immanuel Kant, Ingroup Loyalty, Jonathan Haidt, Justice, Moral Goods, Moralism, Motives, Nietzsche, Non-Moral Goods, Purity, Thomas Hurka, Tyler Samien, Values, Virtues 9 Comments »Playing Sarkozy’s Advocate
June 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Njustus has kindly accepted my gauntlet to readers to offer on the possibility of the French government outlawing women from publicly wearing burqas. And his reply is a good one: From a Lockean ’social contract’ perspective, I believe the state should have the power to regulate the wearing of burqas if it can offer a [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Autonomy, Ethics, Islam, News Discussion, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Separation of Church and State, Women's Rights Tags: Burqa, Culture, France, Freedom of Speech, Heteronomy, Liberalism, Liberatarianism, Locke, Muslims, Paternalism, Philosophy, Politics, Religious Liberties, Social Contract, Subcultures 6 Comments »Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy
June 27th, 2009 Daniel Fincke An important looking new collection of articles on a crucial topic (especially for my dissertation) called Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy is coming out July1. It is co-edited by Ken Gemes and Simon May (whose book, Nietzsche’s War on Morality is one of the very best, if not the very best, books on Nietzsche’s ethics [...]
Posted in Autonomy, Contemporary Ethics, Ethics, Historical Ethics, Moral Psychology, Nietzsche, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy Tags: Aaron Ridley, Brian Leiter, Christopher Janaway, David Dudrick, David Owen, Freedom, John Richardson, Ken Gemes, Mathias Risse, Maudemarie Clark, Nietzsche, Peter Poellner, Philosophy, Robert Pippin, Sebastian Gardner, Simon May No Comments »
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