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