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Before moving on to addressing the question of when it is right or wrong to get offended, let me quickly address a certain attitude that arises a lot in response to my posts on morality. I sense in the tone of a lot of comments I get in general that there is a fear of [...]
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Why Bother Blaming People At All? Isn’t That Just Judgmental?
November 25th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, Christianity, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Ethical Pluralism, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Ethics, Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Intellectual Virtues, Jesus, Jesus, Metaethics, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Rationalism, Virtues, Virtues 
Tags: Blame, Blame and Determinism, Determinism, Free Will, Immoralism, Judgmentalism, Moralism 
32 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 »Further Towards A “Non-Moral” Standard Of Ethical Evaluation
July 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In reply to a recent post, Tyler writes: Your definition of ethics and morality is well taken and allows for further interesting debate on culture and moral systems but it still requires assumption of benefit. Defining phrases like “fully flourishing life” and “most excellent characters we can develop” require a standard of evaluation which I [...]
Posted in Authority, Duty, Ethical Pluralism, Uncategorized Tags: Arete, Atheistic Ethics, Autonomy, Care, Equality, Ethics, Evolutionary Psychology, Excellence, Fairness, Fruits and Ladders, Harm, Human Flourishing, Ingroup Loyalty, Jonathan Haidt, Justice, Metaethics, Moral Goods, Moral Psychology, Moralism, Motives, Non-Moral Goods, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Purity, Quality vs. Quantity, Sociobiology, Tyler Samien, Values, Virtues No Comments »Towards A “Non-Moral” Standard Of Ethical Evaluation
July 6th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In a previous post, I raised some remarks from psychologist of morality Jonathan Haidt, in which he discussed his theory that moral thinking appeals to 5 essential modules hardwired into our brains by evolution. In the interview I cited from a couple of years ago he only referred to 4 of the 5 modules but [...]
Posted in Atheistic Ethics, Authority, Autonomy, Duty, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Evolutionary Psychology, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Sociobiology, Virtues Tags: Arete, Aristotle, Care, Equality, Excellence, Fairness, Harm, Human Flourishing, Immanuel Kant, Ingroup Loyalty, Jonathan Haidt, Justice, Moral Goods, Moralism, Motives, Nietzsche, Non-Moral Goods, Purity, Thomas Hurka, Tyler Samien, Values, Virtues 9 Comments »
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