![]() ![]() It is therefore difficult to review or summarize I could spend pages discussing relatively minor matters covered in the book. For a relatively short book, it packs in a tremendous amount of insight. But this book is fascinating beyond belief. I am not hopeful such an increase will happen. The author, Jonathan Haidt, uses this framework to understand political differences, and to plead for an increase in rationality and civility to arise from that understanding. The Righteous Mind is an extended attack on the usefulness of the harm principle as the sole way to understand and justify human morality, combined with detailed explanations of the much broader ways in which people can and do view morality. ![]() More deeply, it’s because America is dominated today by the nearly universal (but wholly unexamined) belief that the only legitimate principle of moral judgment is John Stuart Mill’s “harm principle”-that no restriction on human action can be justified other than to prevent harm to another. ![]() In part, this is because stupidity is on display everywhere, and encouraged to be so, even though most people’s thoughts and opinions are less than worthless, as a glance at Facebook or The New York Times comment sections will tell you. In today’s world, discussion about morals is a lost art. ![]()
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