Key insights from
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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11 minute read
Published Feb 12, 2013
What you'll learn
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has done the seemingly impossible: He’s written a book that allows people of differing political and religious persuasions to put down their weapons and their guards long enough to learn where their moral intuitions come from and why we have such a hard time playing nice.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 A convincing view of how we become moral creatures needs to appreciate the importance of our intuitions and the opinions of others.
- 2 If you want to persuade someone, talk to the elephant—not the elephant’s rider.
- 3 The values of Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic cultures are global outliers.
- 4 Western ethics are pretty one-dimensional compared to the rest of the world.
- 5 The conservatives leverage the voters’ moral psychology better than liberals.
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