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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics & Religion (eBook)

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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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Various Digital Retailers have The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics & Religion (Kindle eBook) on sale for $1.99.

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Available retailers:About this title:
  • 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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People are divided because I'm right and they're wrong.
That's not normal. Seek a doctor for diagnosis.
One of the best books I have read in years....

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Sep 25, 2024
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Quote from Roland00 :
I am of mixed feelings with Haidt and this book , it is not a BAD book , and it is a good intro-duction on the subject matter … yet it is never the last world on the subject and is way more complicated than the book first presents (after all it is an airport book)
Haidt is a fraud. He's behind that "Coddling" book/movie, which right-wing propaganda in disguise.
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That's a good book. I'm not sure Haidt got the problem right (he's working inside the rationalist paradigm), but worth reading anyway just to have a perspective.
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Quote from th3g3ntl3man :
Haidt is a fraud. He's behind that "Coddling" book/movie, which right-wing propaganda in disguise.
I read the "coddling" book. And I don't agree with many of his "solutions"/opinions. But he painstakingly states them as such every time he does it, so they are easy enough to separate.

But I found his data rigorously researched, and his presentation of that data to be fair (again, as distinct from many of his conclusions). So what's your justification for the word "fraud"? Can you provide counter sources? Can you point to valid data that contradicts what he provides? Just because he has some opinions that might align with right-wing crackpots does not make him a fraud. Fwiw, I am an extremely progressive liberal.
Last edited by cohiba September 26, 2024 at 08:51 AM.
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Quote from Tad12 :
Free audiobook version was available when I went to the link via Amazon.com as an audible plus member.
Actually not quite true. You can *listen* to the audiobook for free (while you are a member), but you don't actually get the title for free.
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Quote from th3g3ntl3man :
Haidt is a fraud. He's behind that "Coddling" book/movie, which right-wing propaganda in disguise.
I agree with that, thus mixed feelings. For I appreciate David Hume Moral Sentiments love

but you can quickly go into logics where you justify your perspective and demean others, such as racial IQ stuff Haidt believes in. And some of his statistics he uses in the last two books such as phones are bad, are real stats but taken out of context where one can do the who lies, damned lies, and statistics stuff.

Likewise I can critique this book to death from an anthropology and comparative culture study for it does not translate his 5 moral sentiment framework in all cultures. We have the 2000s WEIRD replication crisis (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic aka getting 20 year old college students to take surveys for free for homework does not translate well to the real world.)

There is some there there, but making it into a fetish instead of recognizing humans are fluid and in flux is taking the wrong lesson one can from this book. And I think Haidt has done that for it pays well and his own 50 year old anxieties.
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Quote from cohiba :
I read the "coddling" book. And I don't agree with many of his "solutions"/opinions. But he painstakingly states them as such every time he does it, so they are easy enough to separate.

But I found his data rigorously researched, and his presentation of that data to be fair (again, as distinct from many of his conclusions). So what's your justification for the word "fraud"? Can you provide counter sources? Can you point to valid data that contradicts what he provides? Just because he has some opinions that might align with right-wing crackpots does not make him a fraud. Fwiw, I am an extremely progressive liberal.
I consider him a "fraud" in the sense that he portrays himself as purely an objective scientist, but in reality he has a strong right-wing agenda. I subscribe to the "Coddling" movie emails and they are nothing but right-wing propaganda denouncing anything "woke". I did really like the message of the book (not so much his "solutions") which is how I got into learning about him in first place.
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