“Bad Morality”: How do moral feelings make things worse?

Kendon Smith Lecture Series
School of Education Building 1300 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro

Moral feelings help us cooperate and build communities. But can they also make things worse? Looking particularly at empathy, moral outrage, loyalty, and purity concerns, this talk explores how moral feelings can lead to troubling outcomes and argues that we often suffer from having too much morality.