The Relationship Between Shame and Guilt

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There is no word for guilt in the Hebrew Old Testament. Even modern society is much more obsessed with guilt It's similar to honor and justice Have a similar, like, you see so many more mentions of honor and Shakespeare Than you do,. Justice, Dan Demetrio on his blog kind of posted about this it's like 700 to 22 or something like that And I bet there's a connection between shame Certainly there's a connected between honor and shame, but between guilt and justice, too Yeah, and between those parallels, maybe about the social nature of those words.

David and Tamler welcome author and environmental science professor Jennifer Jacquet to the podcast to discuss the pros and cons of shame. What's the difference between shame and guilt? Is shaming effective for generating social progress or getting tax cheats to pay up? Is twitter shaming on the rise or on its way out? And what does David do when he's alone in the dark?

But before all of that, David and Tamler introduce a new way to support the podcast--through our Patreon account (patreon.com/verybadwizards). Plus, we discuss the retraction of a press release announcing that a professor agreed to referee a journal article (!) And can one passage get Tamler, the eternal optimist, to hate philosophy?

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