Weakness of Will

Oh You Can Get Good People To Do Bad Things Without Religion Alright…

May 12, 2013 By Daniel Fincke 30 Comments

Sometimes atheists become enamored with some pretty psychologically shallow memes. In this post, I fisk one.

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Philosophical Ethics: Does Calling Someone Evil Explain Anything About Them?

October 2, 2009 By Daniel Fincke 5 Comments

In a series of posts this semester, I am going to blog all (or almost all) the lecture topics for the two Philosophical Ethics classes I am teaching this semester. Each of these posts will primarily explicate the reading or a theme that dominated class discussion in a way that should be accessible to novices [...]

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