Professor for philosophy at Texas Tech University specializing Political Legal and moral philosophy. Brandon is assistant professor at Bowling Green State University specializing in ethics and moral psychology and social philosophy. We will take audience questions online using cato events. Watching the event posted so they can find it. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having a. Great to be here. To be here briefly, what is grandstanding . The simplest Bumper Sticker description of grandstandin grandstanding, using the discussion of morality and Public Discourse as a vanity project with morality and justice and family values and tradition to draw attention to themselves to look like a moral paragon to think of morley in my end to care about the American Factory worker to be something more detailed thats very simple that it has two parts the grand standards want a certain audience a referenced network to have them come to believe with moral properties recall this recognition desir
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