![]() ![]() This is also incontrovertible.īut Haidt is unwilling to follow his theory to its ultimate question: Can a democratic political system that privileged the rights of the minority procedurally sustain decision-making based on all six moral factors? Care/Harm, Liberty/Oppression, and Fairness/Cheating are universal factors everybody uses them, and we mostly agree on when they are upheld or violated. This explains both the differences between liberals and conservatives, and why conservatives beat the stuffing out of liberals at the polls. Haidt then goes on to show that Liberalism draws from only the first three moral factors while Conservatism draws from all six. This theory is, frankly, really good and really well developed. society, together, and moral skills have been favored by various evolutionary mechanisms over human history. ![]() Morality serves to bind non-related groups, i.e. On the good side: Haidt draws broadly from research in psychology, anthropology, and biology to develop a six-factor basis for morality (Care/Harm, Liberty/Oppression, Fairness/Cheating, Loyalty/Betrayal, Authority/Subversion, Sanctity/Degradation), and show that moral judgement is an innate intuitive ability accompanied by post-hoc justifications. Haidt is much better psychologist than political philosopher, and this book is both monumental and dangerously flawed. ![]()
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