INFO
- Rating: 8
- Author: Jonathan Haidt
- Calibre Douban
Notes
- Subtitle is the question the author tried to answer in this book: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion?
- The author is a social psychologist. What is that?
- 我的总体感觉是这个书的观点很有可能是对的，但是很危险，很有可能被作为种族主义的依据。因为非常简化之后就可以总结为群体达尔文主义。
- 倒数第二章讲了宗教的一些加强团结方面的作用。
- 一个挺有意思的事例是荷兰人殖民的一个种水稻的地区有很多梯田，我想再翻回去看看具体是哪里。
Summary
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, and he explains why conservatives can navigate that map more skillfully than can liberals. 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.