Our bodily states sometimes influence our moral judgements. Social and political judgements depend heavily on quick intuitive flashes. This is demonstrated through the following:īrains evaluate instantly and constantly. Therefore, if you want to change someones mind about a moral or political issue, you need to speak to the Elephant first. Moral reasoning is like it is to gain friends and influence people not finding the truth. Even when there is no reasoning, the intuition doesn't change. People have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong but struggle to construct justifications for those feelings. The rider has evolved to serve the elephant. A rider (controlled provesses) and an elehant (automatic processes). Haidt explains how morality can be innate (a set of evolved intuitions) and learned (as children begin to apply those intuitions within a particular culture) Morality cannot be entirely self-constructed by children based on their growing understanding of harm - cultural learning and guidance plays a larger role. Moral reasoning is sometimes a post rationalisation People sometimes have gut feelings - that can drive their reasoning.

In Western, educated and individualistic cultures it is more narrow whereas in Sociocentric cultures the moral domain encompasses more aspects of life. Rationalists believe that morality is self-constructed by children on the basis of their experiences with harm. Standard answers are that morality is innate or from childhood learning. Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth. The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor. If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you’ll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you. This book should help you be more compassionate in understanding others opposing viewpoints. If you are keen to understand more deeply why you have certain views, moral outlooks. If you are interested in politics and understanding opposing views. This book was recommended to me by Ali Abdaal. The overall messages and drawn conclusions were thoughtful and logical - although there were unnecessary, overly detailed passages in the book. This was an interesting read, deeply analysing moral psychology in a well constructed, logical way. We need to speak to peoples intuitions, not reasoning, when understanding opposing views on politics and religion. Morality is not fixed, it varies based on time, place, culture. Our intuitions drive our moral psychology not our strategic reasoning The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

The righteous mind