Jonathan Haidt: Morale

Jonathan Haidt is American psychologist. Explore interesting quotes on morale.

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“I suggested that liberals might have even more difficulty understanding conservatives than the other way around, because liverals often have difficulty understanding how the Loyalty, Authority, and Sanctity foundations have anything to do with morality.”

Jonathan Haidt book The Righteous Mind

The Righteous Mind (2012)

“If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you’ll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.”

Source: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012)

“[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.”

Source: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

“Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.”

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012)

“And in none of these ways are moral philosophers better than other philosophers or professors in other fields. Schwitzgebel even scrounged up the missing-book lists from dozens of libraries and found that academic books on ethics, which are presumably borrowed mostly by ethicists, are more likely to be stolen or just never returned than books in other areas of philosophy.”

Jonathan Haidt book The Righteous Mind

The Righteous Mind (2012)

“The list of five moral foundations was my first attempt to specify how the righteous mind was "organized in advance of experience.”

Jonathan Haidt book The Righteous Mind

Source: The Righteous Mind (2012)