![]() ![]() It is fun to test where you stand at The website provides insight into your own moral positioning, but also enables you to compare your results with those of some 150,000 other people. Not everyone has the same taste, but all of us exhibit preferences on way or another on six dimensions. Second, morality can be understood as having six dimensions, like a tongue with six taste receptors: the taste buds of the righteous mind. We should think of ourselves as being small (rational) riders on large (intuitive) elephants. ![]() Strategic reasoning is used to justify or back up intuition, rather than replace it. ![]() There are three core propositions.įirst, moral judgements are largely intuitive rather than rational. Haidt describes himself as a moral psychologist and explores the roots of morality. ‘You think they were right to eat their dog. ![]() Apart from anything else, the little stories he uses to tease out the reader’s moral positioning make for great conversation over dinner. I observed earlier in this thread that I had been advised to read Jonathan Haidt’s book ‘The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion’. How can we disrupt the psychological status quo?’. I posted these two comments at the end of a thread on the subject from last October, entitled ‘The optimists and pessimists are far apart on climate change. This is not a review of Jonathan Haidt’s ‘The Righteous Mind’, but rather an application of the ideas in the book to the question of how to ‘message’ climate change. ![]()
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