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Thu, Oct 2, 2025
12:00 pm
How We Moralize and Why It Matters
Moralizing gets a bad rap, but I’ll try to convince you that it (sort of) shouldn’t. I’ll walk through a handful of unusual forms that moralizing can take, like ironically thanking someone or pretending to reprimand someone who isn’t there. I’ll try to show that paying closer attention to these forms of moralizing should change your mind about the function of morality, sanctimoniousness, and whether morality is more a matter of reason or emotion.
Speaker: Ian Olasov