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According to the Friendly Atheist, American Atheists are running the ad below in Huntsville, Alabama: Is it fair to call all churches scams? Obviously there are at least some quite sincere believers. Do all perpetuations of falsehoods and false promises for profit (of various forms) count as scams? Or are the only scams those which [...]
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2nd Top Q: “Is It Unfair To Call All Religions ‘Scams’?”
January 2nd, 2011 
Daniel Fincke Philosophical Ethics: Can We Uphold A Moral Law And A Principle That We Should Break It?
October 19th, 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 Andrew Sullivan, Applied Ethics, Civil Liberties, Contemporary Ethics, Duty, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Featured, Law, Law & Politics, Moral Psychology, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Torture 
Tags: Chris Bodenner, Hard Truths, Hypocrisy, Lying, Matt Damon, Moral Dilemmas, Slavoj Zizek, Truth, Universalizability 
10 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 No Comments »Ricky Gervais, Atheism, And The Invention Of Lying
September 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke I’m really excited about The Invention of Lying, the upcoming Ricky Gervais film. I started the script last spring online and simply couldn’t stop reading until it was done. It was not a terribly funny read (except occasionally) but I love films which explore a thought provoking “what if” in a sufficiently thoughtful way and [...]
Posted in Atheism, Comedy, Film, Hilarious, TV, Videos Tags: Film Script, Inside The Actor's Studio, James Lipton, Lies, Lying, Ricky Gervais, Script Reviews, The Invention of Lying, Truth No Comments »Tells
August 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Some really interesting tips for detecting liars. A lot of stuff here that I hadn’t thought of before but they’re really intuitive and make you realize the many ways people can clumsily go about trying to deceive. A few I found particularly worth note: • Timing and duration of emotional gestures and emotions are off [...]
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 »
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