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The Righteous Mind — Intriguing but lacking (Notable Tomes’s take)
Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind is an interesting and insightful read. It offers a picture of humanity that offers supporting evidence of why models that claim humanity is rational are incorrect. Particularly the evidence of mental illness (see, among other … Continue reading
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Haidt’s Continuity
One can understand Jonathan Haidt’s arguments in The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion more from reading his earlier works. A 2007 New York Times article entitled “Is ‘Do Unto Others’ Written Into Our Genes?” … Continue reading
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Morality around the world
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, by Jonathan Haidt Post 2/3 “Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other matrices,” (110). Part II of Haidt’s tome, … Continue reading
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On inclusivity: can there be an inclusive (moral) system?
Post 1/3 Moral psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, argues that morality is innate, as opposed to a quality that comes through rationality. In his Introduction to The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, Haidt asserts that morality … Continue reading
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