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Would you ever call a terrorist brave? Were there brave Nazis? Does fighting using unjust tactics or fighting for an unjust cause make one’s own willingness to face mortal threats less brave or can one have the virtue of bravery even though one resorts to evil techniques or serves evil purposes? Assuming the soldier or [...]
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3rd TOP Q: Can Virtues Conflict Or Must Every Truly Virtuous Action Be Approvable According To Every Other Virtue As Well?
January 3rd, 2011 
Daniel Fincke Disambiguating Faith: Defending My Definition Of Faith As “Belief Or Trust Beyond Rational Warrant”
July 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Last week I responded to David Crowther’s argument that we should equally consider all beliefs that are not 100% certain to be “faith beliefs”. I argued that the word “belief” already covers the fact that we are fallible human beings and as such even our most nearly 100% certain propositions about the world are always [...]
Posted in Authority, Authority, Disambiguating Faith, Disambiguating Faith, Epistemic Justification, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Epistemology, Faith, Faith, Featured, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Intellectual Virtues, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion 
Tags: Faith As Loyalty, Faith as Trust, Loyalty, Trust, Trustworthiness, Volition, Volitional Disposition, Volitional Faith 
9 Comments »Some Suspicions About The Superiority Of Liberal Moral Values
June 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Earlier today, I drew attention to Greta Christina’s article formulating some ideas she picked up from Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. If you have already read either or both of those posts, you can just skip the next two paragraphs meant to catch up new readers. The Goldstein/Greta Christina argument built off of Jonathan Haidt’s theory of [...]
Posted in Authority, Autonomy, Contemporary Ethics, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Featured, Hypocrisy, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Prejudice, Psychology, Social Psychology, Social Sciences, Sociobiology, Sociology, Teleology, Virtues Tags: Conservative Values, Flourishing, Greta Christina, Hierarchy, Impartiality, In-group Loyalty, Jonathan Haidt, Liberal Values, Loyalty, Moral Modules, Moral Universalism, Purity, Rebecca Goldstein, Universalism No Comments »Maximal Self-Realization In Self-Obliteration: The Existential Paradox of Heroic Self-Sacrifice
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: The Threatening Abomination Of The Faithless
August 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Faith is a form of loyalty. But more than that, faith is a form of trust which does not calibrate itself to objective standards of trustworthiness but trusts people despite their limitations as provably trustworthy people or even despite counter-evidence to the notion that they are worthy of trust at all. Even more than that, however, faith [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Authority, Disambiguating Faith, Ethics, Faith, Featured, Fundamentalism, Moral Psychology, Philosophy, Religion, Religious Moderates, Secularism Tags: Faithfulness, Faithlessness, God as Personification of Tradition, God as Proxy For Tradition, Godlessness, Loyalty, Morality as Tradition, Religious Liberals, Tradition, Traditionalism, Trust 19 Comments »Disambiguating Faith: Blind Faith: How Faith Traditions Turn Trust Without Warrant Into A Test Of Loyalty
August 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Tuesday, I began my series of posts attempting first to disambiguate the various senses of the word faith, to explore how the various practices referred to under this one word’s umbrella all relate to each other and how they can be ethically and epistemologically assessed, both as they occur individually and in various combinations with [...]
Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Loyally Trusting Those Insufficiently Proven To Be Trustworthy
August 12th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Yesterday I began my series of posts attempting first to disambiguate the various senses of the word faith, to explore how the various practices referred to under this one word’s umbrella all relate to each other and how they can be ethically and epistemologically assessed, both as they occur individually and in various combinations with [...]
Disambiguating Faith: Trustworthiness, Loyalty, And Honesty
August 11th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The word faith is an ambiguous one and its various connotations get hopelessly confused with each other in ways that muddle many arguments about the ethical and epistemological justifications for holding beliefs on faith. Because of this, I want to write several posts here which disambiguate faith’s various senses and evaluate the worth of each [...]
Posted in Contemporary Ethics, Disambiguating Faith, Ethics, Faith, Featured, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Virtues Tags: Faithfulness, Honesty, Loyalty, Trustworthiness 11 Comments »
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