What you call “overmoralization” I would call “undermoralization”. Wouldn’t you agree that locking someone in a cage or taking their property without sufficient reason is immoral?
I propose searching JSTOR for “moralization” and checking the sense in which the word is used in the first 10 articles as a adequate test of current usage. If my belief about the current usage fails this test, I will change my mind.
I think this may be an issue of colloquial use conflicting with academic use. I have always heard it used to mean talking about your morality, but when I looked it up I also saw that it could mean improving morals.
What you call “overmoralization” I would call “undermoralization”. Wouldn’t you agree that locking someone in a cage or taking their property without sufficient reason is immoral?
“Moralization” is as distinct from “morality” as “rationalization” is from “rationality”. :)
That is funny, but runs counter to current usage in the field of ethics (where “moralization” means to make moral).
interesting, because I think of ata’s usage being similar to typical usage.
I propose searching JSTOR for “moralization” and checking the sense in which the word is used in the first 10 articles as a adequate test of current usage. If my belief about the current usage fails this test, I will change my mind.
I think this may be an issue of colloquial use conflicting with academic use. I have always heard it used to mean talking about your morality, but when I looked it up I also saw that it could mean improving morals.
This is what I meant.