If we can understand more about how people form their views of what is right and wrong in the world, this can help us get along better with others, instead of judging people with opposing views to be extremists of some sort.
When we’re online, whether we’re reading an article by a journalist, the comments below that article, or opinions shared on a social media platform, there’s usually a moralistic stance behind the words we read or write. The Righteous Mind provides a framework which we can use to understand ideologies and the political spectrum. He’s concerned about the rise in anxiety in young people compared with previous generations, and their lack of tolerance for opposing views. It’s worth noting however, that the author Jonathan Haidt does have things to say about our use of technology: he was interviewed for The Social Dilemma, and his most recent book, The Coddling of the American Mind, discusses the impact of smart phones and social media on teenagers who grew up with them. That’s why, despite being slightly tangential to the topics of this website, I decided to review The Righteous Mind. With a tendency towards echo chambers in our online interactions, where we easily find views which confirm our own, it seems to me that we need to build our capacity to understand alternative views more than ever. In the digital age, and particular over the last two years of the pandemic, so much of our lives have been online. It’s about morality and understanding others who may have a different sense of what is right and wrong. The Righteous Mind is not a book about either mindfulness or technology (the topics of this website). “Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion” In this subtle yet accessible book, Haidt gives you the key to understanding the miracle of human cooperation, as well as the curse of our eternal divisions and conflicts.Book Review Cover Title The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Author Jonathan Haidt Published 13 th March 2012 ISBN 9780141039169 Support us 📚 Buy from Book Depositoryīuying via our affiliate link supports mindful.technology with a small commission from your purchase. He shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong, and he shows why each side is actually right about many of its central concerns. The bestseller that challenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike-a "landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself" (ĭrawing on his twenty-five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from gut feelings.
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