Haidt argues that we tend to view the world through a particular moral lens, and that this can make it difficult to understand and empathize with those who hold different beliefs.

Some of the ideas are so multilayered, it can get complicated to keep track. He opts to explain the history of how concepts were introduced, researched and fought over by several authors along centuries. He also uses plenty of real-world examples and ...  Read More

Haidt uses evolutionary theory as well as psych research data analysis to back up his concepts. He and others propose that helping others become more like us is like wanting all parts of our bodies to be the same.

I highly recommend this book for anyone who is seeking clarity within today’s chaotic political climate. This book helps improve human relations and understanding those who hold differing viewpoints.

This is a point where no thinking ethical being can allow him-/herself relent. Haidt describes innate mechanisms in our brains that predispose certain approaches to morality, and that these are shaped by our circumstances.

The book is written with a number of leftist it is vacous taking more than a page to offer the equivalent of a well formed sentence. It starts in chapter 2 with his mischaracterization of the criticism of e. E. It's a book of fairly broad suppositions...  Read More

Knowing that through the trump debacle he has only doubled down on his thesis makes me all the more resentful.

Scott dejarlais and larry craig (the anti-gay senator from idaho caught soliciting * in an airport restroom) are just a couple easy examples of talk that is very disconnected from behavior.

Dawkinsian selfish gene trope is being discredited as conflation of a thing being studied with the method of studying it. I am always suspicious of these arguments through evolutionary biology or psychology because they are merely unprovable conjectur...  Read More

Haidt doesn't acknowledge how systems of oppression shape people's attitudes. He uses sociobiology to make it seem as if it was *defeated* by attacks against its political incorrectness.