![]() Metaphor: human beings are 90% chimp (egoistic) and 10% bee (social, in need of hive-life). To conservatives, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion and sanctity/degradation are also relatively important). Liberals’ foundations have 3 pillars: care/harm, liberty/oppression and fairness/cheating. Metaphor: the righteous mind is like a tongue with six taste receptors (six moral intuitions with different implications for liberals and conservatives. There’s more to morality than harm and fairness ![]() Also ties in to Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, where the Heath brothers have added “shape the path” (for elephant and rider)). Metaphor: the mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider’s job is to serve the elephant (the elephant is akin to Kahneman Daniel’s Fast-system in Thinking, Fast and Slow and the rider is the Slow system. Intuitions come first, srategic reasoning second Haidt makes a well-rounded case, with empathetic take on views he personally does not hold, echoed very wel in Chapter 12’s title “Can’t we all disagree more constructively?” Lots of ideas and concepts explained very well and also from different angles. Very rich, good and candid book on moral psychology. ![]() The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt ![]()
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