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  • Author: Jonathan Haidt
  • Page Length: 530 pages
  • Drawing on his twenty-five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, Jonathan Haidt shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from gut feelings. He shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong, and he shows why each side is actually right about many of its central concerns.
  • In this subtle yet accessible book, Haidt gives you the key to understanding the miracle of human cooperation, as well as the curse of our eternal divisions and conflicts. If you're ready to trade in anger for understanding, read The Righteous Mind.

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AuthorJonathan Haidt
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Publication dateMarch 13, 2012
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The acclaimed social psychologist challenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike—a "landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself" (The New York Times Book Review).

Drawing on his twenty-five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, Jonathan Haidt shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from gut feelings. He shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong, and he shows why each side is actually right about many of its central concerns.

In this subtle yet accessible book, Haidt gives you the key to understanding the miracle of human cooperation, as well as the curse of our eternal divisions and conflicts. If you're ready to trade in anger for understanding, read The Righteous Mind.

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This is one of my favorite books. I first checked it out from the library on Overdrive, but I liked it so much I bought it on Audible to better bookmark favorite quotes. There was so much I wanted to save that I bought it on Kindle too so I could highlight all the interesting research it includes. That is something cool about this book, it includes a ton of research and sources.

Some people criticize this book because of their own tribalism biases still wanting to 100% demonize "the other guys" instead of each trying to understand each other, but if you have any capacity at all to sincerely want to understand why people have different morals/ethics from your own rigidity, then you'll love this book because it goes into very great detail about the roots of it all.
The reason we are so divided is because I'm right and you're wrong.
This is a great work that will help you empathize with others, appreciate the depth and similarities of ancient and recent historical divides, and is a reminder to be more charitable and modest in our assumptions of each other. It is short sighted (and dangerous) to dismiss those across an ideological divide as only driven by malice or idiocy.

It explores the foundational psychology behind how our minds can range from being invested in and/or indifferent to a wide swath of sometimes-complementary and sometimes-conflicting underlying virtues and philosophical beliefs.

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This is one of my favorite books. I first checked it out from the library on Overdrive, but I liked it so much I bought it on Audible to better bookmark favorite quotes. There was so much I wanted to save that I bought it on Kindle too so I could highlight all the interesting research it includes. That is something cool about this book, it includes a ton of research and sources.

Some people criticize this book because of their own tribalism biases still wanting to 100% demonize "the other guys" instead of each trying to understand each other, but if you have any capacity at all to sincerely want to understand why people have different morals/ethics from your own rigidity, then you'll love this book because it goes into very great detail about the roots of it all.
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The reason we are so divided is because I'm right and you're wrong.
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05-04-2023 at 03:43 PM.
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This is a great work that will help you empathize with others, appreciate the depth and similarities of ancient and recent historical divides, and is a reminder to be more charitable and modest in our assumptions of each other. It is short sighted (and dangerous) to dismiss those across an ideological divide as only driven by malice or idiocy.

It explores the foundational psychology behind how our minds can range from being invested in and/or indifferent to a wide swath of sometimes-complementary and sometimes-conflicting underlying virtues and philosophical beliefs.
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Excellent book. I highly recommend it!
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05-04-2023 at 05:00 PM.
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Quote from mahan1755 :
The reason we are so divided is because I'm right and you're wrong.

No, you're wrong because you're right.
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Frontpage Deal at $2 with +41 Deal Score and 42 comments.

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05-04-2023 at 10:39 PM.
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Is Haidt having his moment now? I've been seeing his videos appear on my YT feed frequently during the past two weeks, mainly on Big Think, TED, and some presentations at workplaces and universities.

Being interested in social psych and also having young kids, I appreciate that Haidt admitted that he went too far in banning his kids from playing Fortnite... he mentioned that he thought that it would fit in with the usual malaise of video game addictions... Turned out that it was a lifesaver for his kids during COVID... It means that he is evolving his work.

Or course, if you are a high scorer on in-group loyalty, purity, and adherence to authority, you may think otherwise, lol.
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05-05-2023 at 04:39 AM.
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Haidt and Lukianoff's book The Coddling of the American Mind is a MUST-read. I finished it earlier this year and it's packed with insight.
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05-05-2023 at 05:24 AM.
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Probably one of the top 5 books ever written. Great find!
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05-05-2023 at 05:30 AM.
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Quote from pony :
Ironically, even the word "righteous" in the book's title is divisive.

The term for a right-handed person is "righteous" (it even has "right" in it's name). The term for a left-handed person is "sinister".

But, in religion, the "right hand" does good and the "left hand" does evil.

Religion commandeered the term "righteous" to mean "good" and the term "sinister" to mean evil.

Its funny how a book speaking about ambiguous morality is using the term "righteous". How "sinister" of them.
I'm offended that you wrote your critique in a language of a people with a history of oppression and colonialism.
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I'm offended that you wrote your critique in a language of a people with a history of oppression and colonialism.

Sadly, this is a total catch 22. If one were to use the language of the "losers" of colonialism/imperialism, no one would understand us.

a non sequitur... Reminds me of the Esperanto club I'd see in college at beginning of the semesters; the table was empty for seven of eight. Looking it up, I found out that it is the most widely spoken auxiliary language... Of 100k people

Kiel Ironia 😛
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05-05-2023 at 05:53 AM.
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I was going to grab this with audible for $7.50, but I noticed it's currently included with an audible subscription. AFAIK, that means if you have an active sub you can listen to the book free right now, but not own it. (That last part is a little confusing since you can "add [it] to library" from the audible site.)
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