Book Notes: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, by Jonathan Haidt
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Note: βBook Notesβ are brief jots on books Iβm reading, not full blown reviews.
It's a top-10 book for me; so eye opening. A few nuggets:
- It's written by a moral psychologist
- It's about moral foundations theory
- It's full of metaphors, like: "The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant." (the rider is reason; the elephant is intuition)
- Conservatives have a much larger moral foundation than liberals; conservatives have six pillars (Liberty, Care, Fairness, Loyalty, Authority, Sanctity), while liberals have only three (Liberty, Care, Fairness)
- Humans are "90% chimp, 10% bee"; we are the result of multi-level evolutionary selection; we evolved to be self-interested, but also groupish.