‘Mr. Preacherman, Should We Love Thy Neighbour?’

On Moral Understanding and Moral Change in Deep Moral Disagreements

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ID17568183
AuthorsRyan Manhire (0000-0001-7949-4848, Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value University of Pardubice Pardubice Czechia, corresponding author), Salla Aldrin Salskov (0000-0002-5854-0363, Åbo Akademi University Turku Finland)
Year2026
Publication date2026-05-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophical Investigations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0190-0536 • E-ISSN: 1467-9205
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/phin.70029
OpenAlexW7160171975
LanguageEN
References cited23

This article examines what it means to respond, or fail to respond, to the individual realities of others in cases of deep moral disagreement concerning trans‐exclusionary sentiments. Building on a limitation we identify in Daniele Moyal‐Sharrock and Constantine Sandis' account of ‘bedrock gender’, we consider two readings of Kendrick Lamar's song ‘Auntie Diaries’ as an artistic intervention in contemporary debates on language, race, and trans politics: a rule‐based self‐censorship reading and a moral‐understanding reading. We argue that while a rule‐based self‐censorship approach may preserve trans‐exclusionary sentiments, a shift in moral understanding reflects a change in one's relation to others in which such sentiments lose their hold. Connecting Lamar's rhetorical question, ‘Mr. Preacherman, should we love thy neighbour?’, to Wittgenstein‐inspired discussions of the parable of the Good Samaritan, we also emphasise the role of unmediated responses to injustice in moral understanding, in contrast to the limits of logic‐driven moral imperatives

Injustice · Moral disengagement · Moral psychology · Moral reasoning · Rhetorical question · Social cognitive theory of morality · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications

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