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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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Do groups evolve?
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt, Post 3/3 Proponents of gene-culture coevolution argue that cultural changes prompt genetic changes, and vice versa, such that they create a feedback loop, the one … Continue reading
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Filed under Contemporary, History, Psychology
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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Ancient themes for contemporary life — or perhaps not
The Iliad of Homer, Books 17-24 As individual volition in The Iliad motivated the last post, the remainder of the tome is taken up with more Achaian-Trojan conflict, and this post is motivated by the implications and climax of the … Continue reading
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