Moral Justification

Moral Actions, Moral Sentiments, Moral Motives, and Moral Justifications: More On The Nun Excommunicated For Approving A Life-Saving Abortion

May 18, 2010 By Daniel Fincke 2 Comments

In reply to my post on the story of Sister Margaret McBride whom the Catholic Church “automatically excommunicated” for helping to give the go-ahead to an abortion claimed necessary for saving the life of an 11 week pregnant mother, I have already received two interesting replies. The first challenged the medical argument for the necessity of [...]

Filed Under: Abortion, Applied Ethics, Authority, Autonomy, Bio-Medical Ethics, Christianity, Contemporary Ethics, Duty, Ethics, Featured, Feminism, Moral Psychology, Morality, My Theory of Morality's Rational Foundations and Nature, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Secularism, Teleology, Virtues, Women's Issues Tagged With: Action Theory, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Consequentialism, Doctrine of Double Effect, Excommunication, John Garvie, Moral Judgment, Moral Justification, Moral Motivation, Moral Sentiments, Phoenix Archdiocese, Sister Margaret McBride, Vice, Vicious Motives, Vicious Sentiments, Virtue Ethics 2 Comments

For God or Morality? On Those Who’d Hold Morality Hostage For Faith

August 1, 2009 By Daniel Fincke Leave a Comment

In his recent critique of Francis Collins, the Christian Evangelical and geneticist recently appointed by Obama to head the National Institutes of Health, Sam Harris referenced the slides from one of Collins’s speeches. I want to take two posts (but possibly more if there are comments or if I otherwise have extra relevant ideas on [...]

Filed Under: Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Authority, Christianity, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Ethics, Faith, Francis Collins, Fundamentalism, God, My Theory of Morality's Rational Foundations and Nature, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Psychology, Rationalism, Religion, Secularism, Uncategorized, Why I Am Not A Christian Tagged With: Divine Command Theory, Fideism, Galileo, Moral Justification, Moral Objectivity, Nihilism, Religious Divided Loyalties, Religious Moral Equivalence, Sam Harris, The Argument From Morality, Voluntarism Leave a Comment

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