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Today, remembering 9/11, I have been thinking about parts of two posts I wrote in 2009 which mean a lot to me, in which I meditated on the bravery of the firefighters. One of the posts is about my father, a retired New York City firefighter and fire marshal, and the other is about the [...]
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In Honor of Firefighters
September 11th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Duty, Duty, Virtues, Virtues 
Tags: 9/11 Firefighters, Firefighters, Heroism, William Fincke, William X. Fincke, William Xavier Fincke 
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April 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Last summer I wrote a number of posts through which I sought to disambiguate the various senses of the word faith and in the process distinguish the various virtuous ethical and epistemic practices for which faith is typically confused by means of ambiguous equivocations. I attempted to distinguish the virtues of hope, loyalty, trust, intuitional [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Disambiguating Faith, Duty, Epistemic Justification, Ethics, Faith, Featured, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Secularism, Teleology, Virtues Tags: 9/11, 9/11 Firefighters, Courage, Existential Justification, Existentialism, Functionalism, Idealism, Indirect Consequentialism, Loyalty, Moral Perfectionism, Perfectionism No Comments »Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Admirable Infinite Commitment For Finite Reasons
September 11th, 2009 Daniel Fincke May your strength give us strength, may your faith give us faith, may your hope give us hope, may your love give us love. In recent weeks I have distinguished and criticized numerous distinct belief formation and justification practices which go by the name of “faith.” I have argued that it is neither rational nor [...]
Posted in Atheistic Ethics, Disambiguating Faith, Duty, Ethics, Faith, Featured, Moral Psychology, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Virtues Tags: 2001, 9/11, 9/11 Firefighters, Bravery, Commitment, Courage, Faith as Courage, Infinite Commitment, Kierkegaard, Proportioning Actions To Reasons, September 11, Supererogatory, Will No Comments »
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