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It’s been well over a year since I’ve felt inclined to give out a ’nuff said award to a commentator, but Mary’s reply to my post on charity, religion, and conservatism definitely qualifies as a comment which deserves its own blog post and needs no further comment from me: The driving force behind what calls [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Charity’
‘Nuff Said Award Winner: Mary Young
January 30th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke Pastafarians: The Most Charitable Human Beings
July 31st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Friendly Atheist Hemant Mehta reports: I’ve mentioned before how atheists are atop the leaderboard at Kiva — a website that “allows people to lend money via the Internet to microfinance institutions in developing countries which in turn lend the money to small businesses…” It’s a wonderful charity. The 5,000+ members of the Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Hemant Mehta, Religion 
Tags: Charity, Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster, Kiva, Mormons, Pastafarians 
No 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 »Professors As Insistent On The Moral Imperative To Vote As To Donate
July 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Eric Schwitzgebel is initially surprised by the data but then does rough calculations about why it is sensible: Now is it just crazy to say that voting is as morally good as giving 10% of one’s income to charity? That was my first reaction. Giving that much to charity seems uncommon to me and highly [...]
Posted in 2008 Presidential Race Tags: Bank Bailouts, Charity, Derek Parfit, Eric Schwitzgebel, Generosity, Iraq War No Comments »
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