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The Righteous Mind
- Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
- Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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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.
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- Mr. L. R. Wareham
- 22-12-18
Very interesting look at the way we see others
This had a lot of confirmation bias for me personally, confirming a lot of ideas I suspected to be true but having no real evidence.
This book explores the psychology and biology of how were perceive other groups and why we sometimes compete with such viciousness. It uses clear metaphors to explore the ideas proposed and is successfully critical of both liberalism and conservatism though in different and important ways.
The author was a fantastic choice to deliver his own work. Anybody with an interest in religion, politics, psychology and the way our society develops should try this.
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- H. P.
- 02-12-18
solid, but some logical leaps
Convincing overall, but an odd reliance on the dubious notion of innate modules: his story would work at least as well without an evidenceless appeal to these.
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- carl
- 21-07-17
has informed me
Would you consider the audio edition of The Righteous Mind to be better than the print version?
i haven't read the print version, but the reader did a great job.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Righteous Mind?
The evolution of morals.
What about Jonathan Haidt’s performance did you like?
he enjoyed doing it, was clear and well paced.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
no over a good few days
Any additional comments?
has informed me about my self and the world i see.
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- Mr. OL Lee
- 28-05-20
A fascinating and crucial read
A detailed yet balanced exploration of the psychology of polarization that is having an ever increasing impact on today's world.
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- Anonymous User
- 27-06-20
Answers some of the less addressed questions too
Haidt takes you on a knowledge path with a good basis for his ideas, from Durkheim's ethics and view on society, with an anthropological standpoint to where we are today, always keeping them backed up by psychosociological research, which are frankly most appealing to some of our more analytical minds. A good consisten read for whoever is questioning or interested in the morality mainly of politics and religion, but of everyday life nevertheless.
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- Mr. H
- 19-01-22
Groundbreaking
A brilliant and thought-provoking book that genuinely helped me understanding things that I hitherto had not been able to make sense of. A must for any thinking person. And Dr. Haidt's voice and reading style is extremely pleasant to listen to.
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- MMS
- 30-05-23
Excellent
Well worth a read, thought provoking analysis. I would definitely recommend if you are interest in social and moral psychology.
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- Hannah Darley
- 19-12-23
Philosophical in an engaging and accessible way
I’d give it a read if I were you ;) it’s short enough to be accessible but long enough to go into his theories
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- Damien H
- 02-10-18
understand people who don't agree with you
Jonathan Haidt had given my new perspective on views that I disagree with and people who I don't understand.
This book has opened my mind and served up a big slice of humble pie to my self righteous ideas.
I now look forward to learning more about people I have disagreed with!
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- levw49
- 29-04-13
A thoroughly interesting book!
I always feel that book's read by the author are far better to listen to and this book illustrates the point perfectly. Haidt is open, honest, informative and passionate about his chosen field of moral psychology. Throughout the book he is unbiased and remains remarkably dispassionate with regards to a variety of moral, social and political views, thus making this book thoroughly educational and informative whilst allowing you to make up your own mind and opinions. I would certainly recommend this to someone who is interested in this field, I have listened to it twice so far and i'm still not bored of it.
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