Name: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
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Author: Jonathan Haidt
ISBN: 9780307377906

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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jonathan Haidt

Publisher

Pantheon Books

Topic

religion, politics & state; ethics & moral philosophy; social psychology

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

448

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.2 x 16.3 x 3.9 cm

Weight

0.75 kg.

ISBN

0307377903

ISBN13

9780307377906

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion "

Why can't our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition--the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right. He blends his own research findings with those of anthropologists, historians, and other psychologists to draw a map of the moral domain, and he explains why conservatives can navigate that map more skillfully than can liberals. He then examines the origins of morality, overturning the view that evolution made us fundamentally selfish creatures. But rather than arguing that we are innately altruistic, he makes a more subtle claim--that we are fundamentally groupish. It is our groupishness, he explains, that leads to our greatest joys, our religious divisions, and our political affiliations. In a stunning final chapter on ideology and civility, Haidt shows what each side is right about, and why we need the insights of liberals, conservatives, and libertarians to flourish as a nation.

Jonathan Haidt

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Writer and social psychologist from New York University, Stern School of Business. Haidt's research examines the intuitive foundations of morality and how morality varies across cultural and political divisions. In 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 2018, he has been studying the contributions of social media to the decline in mental health of teenagers and the rise of political dysfunction.

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