The idea that you can elevate people, and this is an important sympathetic relation. Moral elevation happens when you display virtues in a way that's really powerful. Virtues of caring and compassion and loyalty tend to be the ones that get written about. A courage also can be quite moving. So if a student at zael comes up to you and says, i would like to engage in some moral elevation on campus, what would you tell them to do?
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on morality, politics, disgust, how to maintain free speech on campus, the enriching effects of LSD, antiparsimonialism, and why economists set all the interesting variables to zero.
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