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#221 - Justin Tosi - The Abuse Of Moral Talk For Self Promotion

Sep 19, 2020
01:14:40

Justin Tosi is the Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas Tech University & an author.

Moral grandstanding is the easiest way to signal your virtue without having to actually do anything virtuous. Why has it recently become so prevalent?

Expect to learn why wishing that someone would get cancer isn't a good debating tactic, the different forms that grandstanding takes, why it is a moral problem, how hierarchies play into people's desire to grandstand & much more...

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