Obedience and Integrity

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Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.4 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Dr. Finlayson-Fife joins Sherrae Phelps to talk about the topic of obedience. They discuss questions such as… -When is it good to yield to the authority of another? -What is the difference between the choice to comply based in moral courage vs. obedience that is dangerous? -What is the risk in valuing obedience as an inherent virtue, and how do we reconcile the value of humility with moral responsibility? To learn more about Dr. Finlayson-Fife’s work, visit our Website, check out our Course Page, and take a look at our upcoming Events. You can also follow Dr. Finlayson-Fife on Instagram or join her FREE Facebook Group for greater access to her insights. www.Finlayson-Fife.com This episode was originally aired on July 21, 2019. You can also listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, and Stitcher. The advice offered through Dr. Finlayson-Fife’s Podcast Archive is educational and informational in nature and is provided only as general information. It is not meant to establish a therapist-patient relationship or offer therapeutic advice, opinion, diagnosis treatment or to establish a standard of care. Although Dr. Finlayson-Fife is a trained psychotherapist, she is not functioning in the role of a licensed therapist during these sessions, but rather using her training to inform these sessions. Thus, the content is not intended to replace independent professional judgment. The content is not intended to solicit clients or patients; and should not be relied upon as medical or psychological advice of any kind or nature whatsoever. The information provided through the Content should not be used for diagnosing or treating a mental health problem or disease. The information contained in these communications is not comprehensive and does not include all the potential information regarding the subject matter, but is merely intended to serve as one resource for general and educational purposes.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Ruby, and I'm Dr. Jennifer Finlason-5's assistant, and you're listening to the Dr Finlason-5 podcast Archive.
0:08.0	The podcast you'll be listening to today is entitled,
0:11.0	Obedience, originally produced him published by Shirea Phelps
0:15.2	of the 10,000 hours of writing website.
0:18.4	Welcome and we hope you enjoy this episode.
0:21.4	You know, I think about that our moral development has a lot to do with the experience of living life and choosing having agency.
0:34.0	That's Dr. Jennifer Finneason Fife.
0:37.4	Being someone who is acting in and upon the world
0:42.2	and in that process getting more refined and wiser in one sense of right and wrong.
0:49.0	She's a licensed clinical professional counselor with a PhD in counseling psychology in one sense of what it is to be human and if you're developing that in line with your conscience or integrity you become more capable of self-acceptance and love of others.
1:07.0	But you could also call her an activist. Her work has brought on a tidal wave of social change for the better, stirring and awakening with her words and confronting false traditions that have been destroying the individual and
1:34.7	relationships.
1:36.3	She dismantles destructive ideas within our culture that get in the way of living a meaningful life. She she shows people how to free themselves
1:45.0	from the impressive prison of validation dependency. And today her conversation will cause you to thoughtfully reflect upon the way you view
1:59.3	obedience.
2:00.3	I have some difficulty with the way that we generally talk about the concept of
2:06.4	obedience or the idea of it, the kind of inherent virtue of it, because I think that's a dangerous idea.
2:15.0	My name is Shre Phelps.
2:17.0	This is 10,000 hours of writing, an audio blog sorting through morals, ethics, and faith. Nobody really wants to talk about it.
2:37.0	Abraham's story, you know the part where God asks him to kill his son by stabbing him with a knife, just to test Abraham to see if he will do whatever
2:46.2	God asks him to do. It's not a pleasant story. In the 1800s, in the 1800s, there was some Egyptian papyrus found that revealed
3:01.7	more of Abraham's story.
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