The Righteous Mind
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt
Explore the roots of moral judgments and human cooperation in this groundbreaking book. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt challenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion, showing how gut feelings, not reason, drive our moral beliefs. Discover why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong, and why each side is right about significant issues. The Righteous Mind is a must-read for anyone looking to trade in anger for understanding and gain a deeper insight into our eternal divisions and conflicts.
Publish Date
2012-03-13T00:00:00.000Z
2012-03-13T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads rating
4.21
ISBN
9780307455772
Recommendations
16
Recommendations
2019-04-03T17:39:29.000Z
I’m a big fan of @JonHaidt’s books. The Happiness Hypothesis first got me thinking about happiness (which led to Happy, my last book), The Righteous Mind is tremendous & was part of forming Sacrifice (on Netflix) and now starting The Coddling Of The American Mind. Thanks Jon! – source2020-11-09T17:16:25.000Z
Someone asked me how to understand why we seem so divided. The best book I have read on this is the Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt – source2021-02-23T05:22:21.000Z
On morality and politics, and on the two kinds of fairness, I can't recommend this book by @JonHaidt too highly: – source2020-11-04T17:35:32.000Z
I used to think so until I read this thought-provoking book that has forever changed my views, which talks not only about tribes but also about humans make decisions in ways that are different from how we think we make decisions. – source2019-08-23T05:09:34.000Z
The best work on this is a book by Jonathan Haidt “The Righteous Mind: Why good People are Divided by Religion and Politics.” He argues that human beings have deeply entrenched moral intuitions which guide their assessment of reality. Facts matter very little if at all. – source2021-06-15T20:05:12.000Z
I love @JonHaidt's book The Righteous Mind so much and I think it all boils down to: "never forget everyone is full of shit including me." – source2019-12-05T12:26:29.000Z
@eggheader @OnemuVictor1 @JonHaidt Abeg order two. I read Righteous Mind which he also wrote, and that was a very fascinating book. – source2020-09-02T19:31:50.000Z
IMO, these are the top 5 books to read for surviving 2020 and beyond:
▫️ The Blank Slate – @sapinker
▫️ Kindly Inquisitors – @jon_rauch
▫️ The Righteous Mind – @JonHaidt
▫️ Higher Superstition – Paul Gross & Norman Levitt
▫️ Cynical Theories – @HPluckrose & @ConceptualJames – source2017-07-26T04:27:21.000Z
“The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.”
― Jonathan Haidt, from his brilliant book The Righteous Mind – source2016-05-29T22:10:05.000Z
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt is a really good book; we're all selfish & groupish – sourceAll about trying to figure out the gap between the red and blue states – Republican and Democrat – and it’s really interesting. – source