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Kelly: You are a moral absolutist, Jaime. Jaime: Nonsense. You are the one who wants to impose monogamy on everyone, whether they like it or not. Kelly: No, when we talked the other day, I conceded it was your right to have whatever kinds of open relationships you wanted. I only said that, given human [...]
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Moral Perfectionism, Moral Pragmatism, Free Love Ethics, and Adultery
September 19th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Autonomy, Autonomy, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Duty, Duty, Ethical Pluralism, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Ethics, Love, Love, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology, Sex, Virtues, Virtues 
Tags: Adultery, Anti-Adultery, Anti-Monogamy, Changes in Moral Values, Consequentialism, Marriage, Monogamy, Moral Absolutism, Moral Idealism, Moral Institutions, Moral Perfectionism, Moral Revisionism, Moral Values, Non-Moral Values, Pleasure and Pain, Polyamory, Promiscuity, Utilitarianism 
60 Comments »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 »A Brief Overview Of My Dissertation
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Nietzsche’s writings on morality are famously provocative and controversial. His criticisms of morality in both theory and practice are so extensive and rhetorically scathing that many philosophers assume that he can offer little or nothing constructive to moral philosophy. Additionally, his glorification of the will to power sounds prima facie like a celebration of excessively [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Autonomy, Contemporary Ethics, Cultural Secularism, Duty, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Featured, Historical Ethics, Historical Philosophy, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Morality, New Atheism, Nietzsche, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Virtues Tags: "On Deriving and Defending An Axiology of the Will To Power", Absolutism, Christian Morality, Consequentialism, Dissertation, Duty, Happiness, Heteronomy, Immoralism, Indirect Consequentialism, Instrumental Goods, Intrinsic Goods, Jonathan Haidt, Kantian Moral Philosophy, Moral Absolutism, Pleasure, Self-Overcoming, Virtue, Will to Power 3 Comments »Moral Integration, or the Pros and Cons of Moral Absolutism and Ethical Pluralism
July 2nd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Aaron writes this wonderfully thought provoking reply to my post about moral motivation apart from reference to God: I had an argument a few years back with someone over this. She thought I’d go to hell for not believing in Jesus, even thought she thought I was a great person. I found that troubling. It [...]
Posted in Christianity, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Fundamentalism, Islam, Moral Psychology, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion Tags: Burqa, Culture, Exclusiveness, Group Psychology, Inclusiveness, Islamic Civilization, Jacques Derrida, Moral Absolutism, Moral Integration, Moral Relativism, Multiculturalism, Nietzsche, Original Sin, Philosophy, Pluralism, Redemption, Religion, Thus Spoke Z, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Values Transformation, Western Civilization 2 Comments »
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