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A somewhat unpleasantly hostile atheist is outraged that a nephew, with whom this atheist is admittedly not very close, announced on Facebook plans to study theology (in addition to political science). Here is what the atheist wants to say to the nephew “in a nutshell”: “In a nutshell, I think religion is: pernicious fraud and one [...]
Archive for the ‘Love’ Category
How To Both Love And Debate People (And Knock Off The Attempts To “Save” Them)
July 5th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Ethics, Love, Love, Religion, Religion, Virtues, Virtues 
Tags: Civility, Friendly Atheist, Judging People, Proseytization, Richard Wade, Value Judgments, Values 
No Comments »On The Virtue Of Patriotism
July 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I think the Maverick Philosopher‘s construal of the virtue of patriotism is generally on target and consistent with my framework for understanding the virtue of pride (which would be important since patriotism is, manifestly, a sub-species of pride) and humility (which I essentially wrote last week and am almost ready to post). The maverick one writes: [...]
Posted in Ethics, Love, Love, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Virtues, Virtues No Comments »Judge This: No Gay Kissing On Modern Family?
June 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I am a bit late on this story but wanted to offer a contrary viewpoint to the dominant one of the outraged blogosphere. Though I have never seen the show, I was interested in the controversy over the show Modern Family which apparently features a gay couple among its lead characters. The controversy centers not [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Culture, Cutural Criticism, Ethics, Featured, Homophobia, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Love, Moral Psychology, Morality, News Discussion, Pop Culture, Prejudice, Psychology, Same Sex Marriage, Sex, TV Tags: ABC, Modern Family, Waymon Hudson No Comments »Emotional Rollercoaster Relationships Harder On Young Men Than Young Women
June 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A study of 1,000 men and women ages 18-23, “Nonmarital Romantic Relationships and Mental Health in Early Adulthood” by Robin Simon and Anne Barrett, finds that young men benefit more from a romantic relationship going well and suffer worse from the strain of a bad one, whereas young women benefit more from simply being in [...]
Posted in Love, Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology Tags: Romantic Relationships, Young Men, Young Women No Comments »Marriage As Rooted In Pre-Social Goods And As Having Radical Potential
June 1st, 2010 Daniel Fincke 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, [...]
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 »The Perils Of Unrequited Love
November 11th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Richard Wade’s new column is typically sage, this time as he soberly and accurately advises someone who is unrequitedly in love with a friend: When a friend learns that their friend loves them romantically, but they don’t have that kind of love to return, they often feel a tension because of an odd quirk in [...]
Loving Wives And Loving Countries
October 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke On Bloggingheads, philosophers Simon Keller and Niko Kolodny dissect love. If you don’t have the hour to watch the whole thing or if you are only interested in one of the subtopics they discuss, below is the set of topics. The time listed next to each topic indicates how long that portion of video runs. [...]
Philosophical Ethics: Whether It’s Worth It To Be Just With No Incentives Or With Disincentives
October 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Before we get to the philosophy this time, let’s enjoy my favorite Flaming Lips song: 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 [...]
Posted in Contemporary Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Historical Ethics, Historical Philosophy, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Love, Morality, Music, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Plato Tags: "Bad Days", "Evil Will Prevail", "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song", Competition Among Intrinsic Goods, Disincentives To Be Just, Flaming Lips, Glaucon, Incentives To Be Just, Injustice, Intrinsic Goodness, Joel Feinberg, Justice, Paradox of Hedonism, Self-Overcoming, Selfishness, Socrates, Value Judgments, Weighing Competing Goods No Comments »Sundaily Hilarity: Puppet Love
October 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke So so creepy. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Hilarious, Love, Unintentional Comedy, Videos Tags: Everything Is Terrible, Puppets, Religious Kid Shows No Comments »Gay Kids Coming Out In Middle School
September 24th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The times sure are a-changin’. From a long interesting piece in the New York Times Magazine: Still, the younger they are when they come out, the more that youth with same-sex attractions face an obstacle that would be unimaginable to their straight peers. When a 12-year-old boy matter-of-factly tells his parents — or a school [...]
Daily Hilarity: Love’s Designs
September 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The story of my life. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comic Strips, Evolution, Hilarious, Love Tags: Brontosaurus, Relationships, Turtles, xckd No Comments »On Meeting People Where They Are
August 24th, 2009 Daniel Fincke While he was hospitalized a couple years ago, Daniel Dennett got irritated when people offered to pray for him and insisted that they thank doctors rather than offer their ineffectual prayers. The Wittenburg Door was appalled and inferred (quite unjustifiably) that Dennett did not understand that all many people mean to say when they say [...]
Not “I’ll Pray For You” But “I Love You”
August 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Joe Bob Briggs from The Wittenburg Door visited a convention of atheists last year. The Wittenburg Door is primarily a satire magazine written by Evangelicals with a sense of humor and perspective which I remember fondly from my teen years. So, writing for a “with it” sort of Evangelical publication, Briggs’s barbs at the atheists [...]
The Complicated Relationship Of An Apostate To His Religious Friends And His Reilgious Past
August 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In reply to this post from the other day and subsequent discussion in the comments section about the ways that religious belie can interfere with both reason and love, George writes, For the past year I have been trolling blogs and websites trying to wrap my brain around religion in general and evolution denial in [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Love, Music, Music Videos, Religion, Secularism, Videos, Virtues, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: Apostasy, Boatman's call, Friendship, Into My Arms, Meaning, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nihilism 3 Comments »Love, Religious Style
August 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Daniel M of Good Reason relays this poignant anecdote: I was on a long car trip with my very Mormon mother. Out of the blue, she said, “So you think it’s okay for gay people to get married, do you?” “Yeah,” I said. “I think it’ll be fine.” Mom said “What if your sons turned [...]
Posted in Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Love, Religion, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: Mormons 9 Comments »Call It Volitional Love Rather Than Unconditional Love
July 31st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Earlier today I posted Brendan Palla’s reply to my posts on unconditional love and love in general. In what follows, I have interspersed my replies to him within the stream of his argument. I want to open with a bit of a critique. I don’t think you’ve captured very well the notion of unconditional love [...]
Posted in Contemporary Ethics, Ethics, Love, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Plato, Virtues Tags: Admiration, Affection, Affective Dispositions, Altruism, Arbitrariness, Aristotle, Book I, Book I of the Republic, Brotherly Love, Capriciousness, Complete Love, Conditional Love, Conditions, Deontology, Fairness, Good Will, Kantian Moral Philosophy, Marriage, Obligations, Psychological Conditions, Rational Conditions, Reasons, Reciprocity and Love, The Republic, Thomas Aquinas, Tough Love, Unconditional Good Will, Unconditional Love, Universal Love, Volitional Dispositions, Volitional Love 6 Comments »A Challenge To My Critique Of Unconditional Love
July 31st, 2009 Daniel Fincke A week ago I posted twice on the theme of love, spending the first post on what I saw to be conceptual problems for the ideal of unconditional love and then focusing the second post on a constructive attempt to characterize love and then locating unconditional love within that new framework. The next day, Brendan [...]
Posted in Ethics, Love, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Plato, Virtues Tags: Book I of the Republic, Brendan Palla, Brotherly Love, Charity, Conditional Love, Love and Reciprocal Exchange, Marriage, Rights, Roman Catholocism, The Republic, Thomas Aquinas, Unconditional Love, Universal Health Care, Universal Love, Virtuous Dispositions No Comments »How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways
July 24th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In the first part of this series, I explored the reasons for rejecting “unconditional” love as a candidate for the ideal essence of love since as a concept it is riddled with numerous problems as a recommendation for human psychology it is hopelessly unrealistic. In this part of the series, I sketch out a theory [...]
Posted in Ethics, Love, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Sex, Virtues Tags: Admiration, Affection, Attachment, Commitment, Complete Love, Components of Love, Conditional Love, Desirability, Erosiac Desire, Erotic Desire, Essence of Love, Family, Family Resemblances, Ideal Love, Intimacy, Mutuality, Parental Love, Platonic Desire, Romantic Desire, Sexual Love, Unconditional Love, Value Perception, Virtue Theory, Volition, Wittgenstein 2 Comments »Conceptual Problems For The Ideal of Unconditional Love
July 24th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The ideal of unconditional love strikes many as the purest, most ideal way to define the essence of love. It is easy to see why this characterization of the essence of love is appealing. Unconditional love is an undiluted love—if I love only the good in you but do not love the bad in you, [...]
Posted in Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, Ethics, God, Love, Philosophy, Religion, Virtues Tags: Calvinism, Conditional Love, Desirability, Erosiac Desire, Fitting Love, Hell, Intrinsic Goods, Irresistable Grace, Original Sin, Paradoxes, Parental Love, Predestination, Reprobates, Total Depravity, Unconditional Grace, Unconditional Love, Universal Love, Universalism, Value Perception No Comments »From Economic Desperation To Romantic
July 6th, 2009 Daniel Fincke With less money to keep them warm at night, people more desperate for love apparently: “They’re looking for something that’s genuine in a world that isn’t very secure,” said Bathsheba Birman, co-founder of the Chicago dating event Nerds at Heart. “With headlines full of why you can’t trust established institutions that you thought you could [...]
Posted in Culture, Love Tags: Bathsheba Birman, Craig Kinsey, Dating, Economy, Eharmony, Nerds At Heart, OK Cupid, Recession, Romance No Comments »
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