Sure, Haidt demonstrates a deft mastery of metaphor. He's a dense thinker who can convince a reader to reassess even her most closely held beliefs. But the depth of Haidt's arguments is what matters. You see? This is all stuff you've heard before. We place ourselves in ideological bubbles, and we use confirmation bias to "prove" our beliefs to ourselves. Our beliefs aren't constructed solely on logic. But when I try to explain what Haidt proves in the book, I'm left repeating bland platitudes: You must find common ground in order to bridge political gaps. With remarkable clarity, he explains why we believe what we believe. Haidt digs deep into theories of division and supposition and morality. Just about everyone loved the book.īut the thing is, The Righteous Mind is an incredibly difficult book to discuss.
One book club member even said that she felt if she had read The Righteous Mind before the election, she'd probably have been able to predict that Trump would win. Visit our website at .It's strange: Most everyone at the Reading Through It Book Club last night agreed that Jonathan Haidt's book The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion was the most useful book we've read so far in our quest to understand the presidency of Donald Trump. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways and analyze them for your convenience. Inside this Summary, Analysis & Review of Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind by Instaread: Overview of the BookImportant PeopleKey TakeawaysAnalysis of Key TakeawaysAbout the Author: With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. Third, morality binds communities together, and the moral impetus to community can cause moral blind spots… The second is that morality not only describes opinions about harm and fairness, but also includes communal and group taboos and commitments. The first is that moral intuitions precede moral reasoning. There are three principles of moral psychology. He suggests that conservatism in the United States relies more on appeal to moral intuitions than liberalism does, and that liberals should take conservative morality seriously by acknowledging the validity of the moral institutions that appeal to conservatives.
Haidt argues that morality is based on both intuition and reasoning, and that liberals and conservatives base their beliefs on different and often competing moral constructs. Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion is an application of Haidt’s research on moral psychology to the context of American politics. PLEASE NOTE: This is a Summary, Analysis & Review of the book and NOT the original book.
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