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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
The various moralities found on the political left tend to rest most strongly on the Care/harm and Liberty/oppression foundations. These two foundations support ideals of social justice, which emphasize compassion for the poor and a struggle for political equality among the subgroups that comprise society. Social justice movements emphasize solidar
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other matrices. This makes it very difficult for people to consider the possibility that there might really be more than one form of moral truth, or more than one valid framework for judging people or running a society.
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth you'll be constantly frustrated by how foolish biased and illogical people become when they disagree with you but if you think about moral reasoning is a skill we humans evolved to further our social agendas to justify her actions and defend the teams we belong to then thi
... See moreI 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
religion is (probably) an evolutionary adaptation for binding groups together and helping them to create communities with a shared morality.