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The Righteous Mind

Why Good People Are Divided by Poliotics and Religion

Johnathan Haidt, 2012 | Cedar Mill 302 HAIDT

• p005 1987 grad student psychology University of Pennsylvania

Introduction

• xiii Human nature is not just intrinsically moral, it is also intrinsically moralistic, critical, and judgmental.

Part 1, Intuitions Come First, Strategic Reasoning Second

• The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.
• p004 family dog killed, eaten. Disgusting yes, morally wrong no (to well-educated)
• p004 man buys supermarket chicken, has sex with it, then eats it. MORE disgusting, morally wrong no (to well-educated)
  • everyone else says WRONG

• p005 nativist (Bible, Darwin) morality built in

• p005 empiricist (John Locke) believes babies blank slates, children learn morality from experience

• p005 rationalist (Piaget) children figure it out for themselves

• p006 morality self-constructed during play, improving with age

• p007 rationalist believes moral knowledge from reasoning

• p007 Lawrence Kohlberg quantified Piaget, defined six stages of social reasoning

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Part 2, There is More to Morality than Harm and Fairness

Part 3, Morality Binds and Blinds