Episode 132: Emotional Willpower (with David DeSteno)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Misguided Moral Psychology of Human Beings
I think that in some sense it is misguided to think that people are one thing or another. If there is if there is anything close to capturing human moral psychology, it would be something more like at best some kind of particularism where we pick principles just to for specific situations and at worst, unprincipled. I might go from anywhere from strongly agree to strongly disagree if more of those details were filled in. The key is sometimes like it's not always necessary, but there are sometimes and it depends on the context.
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