Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?: from The Righteous Mind

Jonathan Haidt

Oct 2016 · Sold by Vintage

About this ebook

As America descends deeper into polarization and paralysis, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has done the seemingly impossible—he has explained the origins of morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to everyone on the political spectrum.
 
Drawing on twenty-five years of groundbreaking research, Haidt shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong, and why we need the insights of each if we are to flourish as a nation. Here is the key to understanding the miracle of human cooperation and the eternal curse of moralistic aggression, across the political divide and around the world.

 
A Vintage Shorts Selection. An ebook short.

Ratings and reviews

This is by far the weakest part of Haidt's 2012 tour de force book. The translation of "is" (humans have similar moral pillars but different ways of satisfying them) to "ought" (can't ideologies disagree more constructively?) is, in effect, peak Liberalism, and downright prescient of Haidt's later output. Every year, this part of his book rings more and more hollow.

About the author

Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He obtained his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, and then taught at the University of Virginia for 16 years. He is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, and the co-editor of Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived. He lives in New York City.