Fat shaming, slut shaming, you name it and someone is complaining that other people are being judge-y about we choose to live our lives. On Twitter the only things it is okay to shame in 2019 are Republicans, scientists, and vapers.
But is shaming underrated? In Aeon, Cambridge graduate student Louise Chapman tackles the kind of awkward question that cultural fundamentalists on social media circle with pitchforks and torches; if, as Immanuel Kant said, moral education is hydraulic and virtue rises to the top as shame suppresses our vices, then perhaps shame has under-appreciated value. Instead of spending time being lectured on how a sentence fragment like 'hey you guys' marginalizes apparently everyone except four old white dudes who have been hidden for their own safety, we should embrace more Stoic sagacity.
Or not. That is the great thing about philosophy.
The value of shame by Louise Chapman, Aeon.
Subscribe to the newsletter
[x]
Stay in touch with the scientific world!
Know Science And Want To Write?
Apply for a column: writing@science20.com
Donate or Buy SWAG
Please donate so science experts can write
for the public.
At Science 2.0, scientists are the journalists,
with no political bias or editorial control. We
can't do it alone so please make a difference.
We are a nonprofit science journalism
group operating under Section 501(c)(3)
of the Internal Revenue Code that's
educated over 300 million people.
You can help with a tax-deductible
donation today and 100 percent of your
gift will go toward our programs,
no salaries or offices.
- Biden's Nursing Home Mandate Will Do To Rural Senior Care What Obamacare Did To Hospitals
- EPA Debunks Environmentalist Claims That Acephate Causes Autism
- Vaccines Have Saved 101 Million Infants In 50 Years, Europe Needs To Let That Happen In Agriculture Too
- Despite Little Demand, 2024 Electric Car Sales Will Be Up To 17 Million, Says Advocacy Group
- Oil Kept Congo From Starving - Western Academics Don't Seem To Like That
- Voyager Has Come Back Online After 5 Months
- California Is Lying About Recycling Plastic: Happy Earth Day
Interesting insights from outside Science 2.0
© 2024 Science 2.0
Comments