The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk (with Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke)
Free Thoughts
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The Importance of Knowing if Someone Is Grandstanding
Lying is bad in virtue, not just of the consequences, but also about what someone's doing. Grandstanders are camouflaging themselves in this moral language,. They're sort of treating discourse as a way to get what they really want - status and impressing other people. But they cloak it in this high-minded moral language that really does hide their true intentions. The grandstanding is just not transparent. It's not obvious that someone's doing it.
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