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But haidt is missing a subtle and very powerful nuance in platos story. Book description allen lane penguin uk jun 2012, 2012. This is a comprehensive yet easily readable account of human morality, which enabled us to create civilizations, but set us up for constant conflict too. Awardwinning psychologist jonathan haidt, the author of the righteous mind and the coddling of the american mind, shows how a deeper understanding of the worlds philosophical wisdom and its enduring maxims like do unto others as you would have others do unto you, or what doesnt kill you makes you stronger can enrich and even transform our lives. Why can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe why do ideas such as fairness and freedom mean such different things to. His main areas of study are the psychology of morality and the moral emotions haidts main scientific contributions come from the psychological field of moral foundations theory. Oct 29, 20 in the righteous mind, social psychologist jonathan haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. It will challenge the way you think about liberals and conservatives, atheism and religion, good and. This is one of those books that seems to fit in the same evolutionary psychology space as bob wrights the moral animal. Clearly, there is no need to identify which cover is marketed in the u. What makes the book so compelling is the fluid combination of erudition and entertainment, and the authors obvious pleasure in challenging. Haidt argues that humans have six moral foundations through which we view politics and policy. I was already familiar with some of the ideas in the righteous mind from his ted talk, the moral roots of liberals and conservatives where he develops the.
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