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The Righteous Mind : Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Jonathan Haidt

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  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2012)
  • Zócalo Book Prize (2013)
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The Righteous Mind : Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

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ISBN: 9780141039169
Author: Jonathan Haidt
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 2013-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Sociology, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Politics
Related Topics: Politics, Psychology, Society, Sociology
Goodreads rating: 4.2
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Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition—the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right. He blends his own research findings with those of anthropologists, historians, and other psychologists to draw a map of the moral domain. He then examines the origins of morality, overturning the view that evolution made us fundamentally selfish creatures. But rather than arguing that we are innately altruistic, he makes a more subtle claim—that we are fundamentally groupish. It is our groupishness, he explains, that leads to our greatest joys, our religious divisions, and our political affiliations. In a stunning final chapter on ideology and civility, Haidt shows what each side is right about, and why we need the insights of liberals, conservatives, and libertarians to flourish as a nation.
 

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2012)
  • Zócalo Book Prize (2013)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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