Nietzsche's great psychological insight was that moral narratives serve the status ends of those who promote them. Morality, in other words, is about status and people espouse moral systems that praise their own traits and denounce traits they don't have.
Nietzsche was the first major thinker to really understand virtue signaling. It eventually drove him insane. Or maybe it was the neurosyphilis. In any case, it's a hard-to-swallow insight.
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probably the latter
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It may have been brain cancer. There are some papers on it somewhere. He made the good point that those who advocate justice the most have the hangman's noose in their eyes. They love not justice but to punish. Especially the self-hating and resentful who fight for "equality."
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La Rochefoucauld?
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elaborate please
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is it not communicating cost of action to individual in accepting group mores, ie look at my prosocial trait, given that cheating the system should be punished, lets be clear, so to speak? I prob. need to read a book right? :)
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What about Matthew 6:2-8? "Therefore when thou givest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men."
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As social species, virtue signalling is an ineluctable fact of life. Some people are better at disguising it but essentially we are all constantly trying to score social points whether we are aware or not.
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Not sure on that, virtue signalling is not that subtle a concept. I'd say it was more about morality as an expression of the conditions for life one finds most favourable to oneself.
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