Having dedicated the last several posts to Jonathan Haidt’s book on moral psychology with reference to my study on ethical consumers, I thought it would be useful to sum them all up into a singe book review – I genuinely hope that some of you will find it helpful.
“The Righteous Mind” takes a reader on a fascinating tour of human morality. The book is divided into 3 parts, each intending to convey a particular message about the nature of human moral reasoning through an eloquent metaphor. The “intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second” argument should be the key take-away from the first part. Sourcing inspiration from the ideas of a Platonic philosopher Hume, Haidt argues against a rationalist approach to morality which regards moral reasoning as largely a cognitive ability that humans develop as they grow up and that is focused almost exclusively on the concept of justice. Instead, his social intuitionist model…
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