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		<title>In Which I Answer Leah Libresco&#039;s Moral Philosophy Concerns So You Don&#039;t Become A Catholic Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Fincke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leah Libresco was an irreligious person with little interest in religious issues until as a Yale undergraduate she began dating a Catholic, reading Catholic theology and apologetics, and going to church with him. She wrote a blog about her process of weighing Catholicism against atheism. Recently, she converted to Catholicism. I have previously analyzed some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Anything Intrinsically Good or Bad? An Interview with James Gray</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Fincke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Gray blogs at Ethical Realism. He is passionate about advancing philosophy education and exploring moral realism both in ways accessible to beginners and engaging for advanced philosophy students. The interview below was done as part of a blogathon to support the Secular Student Alliance. Please donate to this worthy organization! And see more links [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast Series Covering The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Fincke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today, I posted a link to an exceptional, accessible podcast introduction to the philosophies of the ancient cynics. The whole series that that podcast comes from is a marvelous idea and the few I&#8217;ve listened to are just great. It&#8217;s called &#8220;The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps&#8221; and it&#8217;s a must listen, basically a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Don&#8217;t Believe In Objective Values, Then Don&#8217;t Talk To Me About Objective Scientific Truth Either</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2011/11/if-you-dont-believe-in-objective-values-then-dont-talk-to-me-about-objective-scientific-truth-either/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Fincke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently argued that when any of us act, we must act for reasons. When acting for reasons we must decide that the end we pursue is the best, most worthwhile, goal to pursue and that the action we take in order to achieve that goal is the most suitable one. I should also add [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Answering Objections From A Moral Nihilist</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2011/11/answering-objections-from-a-moral-nihilist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2011/11/answering-objections-from-a-moral-nihilist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Fincke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today I explained why moral nihilism is self-contradictory in reply to a comment by thedudediogenes on my earlier attack on moral nihilism from last Friday. thedudediogenes also wrote: How I look at morality is influenced most strongly by Nietzsche, Mackie, Leiter, Garner, Greene and Blackford. I think we project our moral sentiments onto the world. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Moral Nihilism Is Self-Contradictory</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2011/11/why-moral-nihilism-is-self-contradictory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2011/11/why-moral-nihilism-is-self-contradictory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Fincke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My post against moral nihilism on Friday received many stimulating replies. I hope to address those replies, or their general concerns, as there is time and occasion in future posts. In this post&#8211;and in another I have written for later today&#8211;I want to start by answering thedudediogenes. He is the most seemingly self-conscious moral nihilist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Philosophical Polemic Against Moral Nihilism</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2011/11/a-philosophical-polemic-against-moral-nihilism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2011/11/a-philosophical-polemic-against-moral-nihilism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Fincke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesse is undeterred by my argument that at least some of our moralities (or elements of them) can be objectively defended even though the physical universe (taken as an entirety) does not care about them: Daniel– I haven’t gone deeply enough through the other posts you linked to, and I will — but I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Be Morally Dutiful, Fair, or Self-Sacrificing If The Ethical Life Is About Power?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2011/11/why-be-morally-dutiful-fair-or-self-sacrificing-if-the-ethical-life-is-about-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Fincke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I argue in my moral philosophy that our highest ethical goods are to maximally flourish in our power and in our will to power. When I say this, many immediately assume that my ethics must be quite at odds with the sorts of concerns for selfless respect for duty and for the autonomy of all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some People Live Better As Short-Lived Football or Boxing Stars Than As Long Lived Philosophers</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2011/10/some-people-live-better-as-short-lived-football-or-boxing-stars-than-as-long-lived-philosophers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Fincke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have argued in several posts that our good is to maximally flourish in our powers and recently I wrote that &#8220;it is a practical contradiction to destroy (or reduce on net) the preconditions of one’s own being.&#8221; In reply, Russell Turpin writes: There are myriad examples of people committing suicide or sacrificing their lives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Functions</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2011/10/natural-functions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2011/10/natural-functions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Fincke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have argued several times that objective goodness, factually speaking, tracks objective effectiveness. To say that something is good, in objective terms, is to say that it effectively (i.e., in fact) functions in such a way that it realizes a kind of being (such that it is a good instance of that kind of being), [...]]]></description>
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