Rachell Powell
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 26 Jan
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look at like these tremendous examples of progress that we would normally identify as progress, like the rule.
Look, look, right now, everything's up for grabs, right?
I mean, you know, things.
Yeah.
Well, the things that we wouldn't have even thought about as in question, like the rule of law, human rights, et cetera.
But like the things that we normally take to be progress, like the increasing inclusion of, you know,
Women and minorities and people with disabilities and LGBTQ and the ethical treatment of animals and going back before that, the rule of law, the abolition of slavery, it kind of goes on and on.
And you can come up with a really long list of these things.
And
How are we able to do all of that given the kind of evolutionary legacy of morality that we have?
And some people would want to say, well, we ultimately won't be able to sustain those ways of being, which you might say, oh, what's happening at this moment in the world is kind of evidence of.
But I personally think you've got to see the bigger arc and the bigger trajectory.
I think it's a little too fine-grained now.
to make that conclusion.
But I think the sort of upshot is that humans have a capacity for normativity, this is going back to your question about normativity, for understanding, for thinking about what's right and what ought to be.
That's kind of open-ended.
And under certain kinds of circumstances,
humans are able to step back, critique the kind of norms that they're following and, you know, make consistency judgments and other things that allow them to interrogate and improve our moral systems.
And so like, you know, I think there is a legitimate, I mean, I'm trying to avoid
very thorny territory in the sort of the Humean Kantian debates about the nature of morality and so forth.
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