Volitional Love

What’s Wrong With Prejudice And Is It Prejudicial To Dislike Someone Over His Bad Thinking?

August 4, 2009 By Daniel Fincke 6 Comments

Over at Unreasonable Faith, guest contributor Custador thinks he is a bigoted atheist: The knowledge that my cousin is a creationist has actually made me dislike him. I wonder now if I’m any better than any other prejudiced person — a racist or a sexist or a homophobe — because I pre-judge a group of [...]

Filed Under: Applied Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Epistemology, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Faith, Featured, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Moral Psychology, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Prejudice, Secularism, Virtues Tagged With: Bias, Character, Fairness, Rational Evaluation, Unconditional Love, Value Perception, Value Theory, Volitional Love 6 Comments

Call It Volitional Love Rather Than Unconditional Love

July 31, 2009 By Daniel Fincke 5 Comments

Earlier today I posted Brendan Palla’s reply to my posts on unconditional love and love in general. In what follows, I have interspersed my replies to him within the stream of his argument. I want to open with a bit of a critique. I don’t think you’ve captured very well the notion of unconditional love [...]

Filed Under: Contemporary Ethics, Ethics, Love, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Plato, Virtues Tagged With: Admiration, Affection, Affective Dispositions, Altruism, Arbitrariness, Aristotle, Book I, Book I of the Republic, Brotherly Love, Capriciousness, Complete Love, Conditional Love, Conditions, Deontology, Fairness, Good Will, Kantian Moral Philosophy, Marriage, Obligations, Psychological Conditions, Rational Conditions, Reasons, Reciprocity and Love, The Republic, Thomas Aquinas, Tough Love, Unconditional Good Will, Unconditional Love, Universal Love, Volitional Dispositions, Volitional Love 5 Comments

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