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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
I could have titled this book The Moral Mind to convey the sense that the human mind is designed to “do” morality, just as it’s designed to do language, sexuality, music, and many other things described in popular books reporting the latest scientific findings. But I chose the title The Righteous Mind to convey the sense that human nature is not ju... See more
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
BORN TO BE RIGHTEOUS
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
BORN TO BE RIGHTEOUS
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Part II is about the second principle of moral psychology, which is that there’s more to morality than harm and fairness. The central metaphor of these four chapters is that the righteous mind is like a tongue with six taste receptors. Secular Western moralities are like cuisines that try to activate just one or two of these receptors—either concer
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“The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.” Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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I want to show you that an obsession with righteousness (leading inevitably to self-righteousness) is the normal human condition. It is a feature of our evolutionary design, not a bug or error that crept into minds that would otherwise be objective and rational.
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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