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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Intuitions lead and reasoning follows in our moral choices.
Chapter 3: Self-interest and reputation powerfully shape the way we reason about morality.
Chapter 4: Moral concerns differ across cultures but rest on shared core foundations.
Chapter 5: WEIRD societies are moral outliers in the human family.
Chapter 6: Evolution has shaped us to be both selfish and selfless.
Chapter 7: Our “hive switch” can intensify our feeling of unity with a group.
Chapter 8: Faith can foster tightly knit, generous and morally guided communities.
Chapter 9: Conservatives draw on more moral foundations than liberals when courting voters.
Chapter 10: Rising polarization endangers sound policy, so both sides must offer their strengths.
Description
The Righteous Mind (2012) explores how moral decisions are made, concluding that moral judgments stem from intuitions, not logic. The author draws on his background in social psychology and 25 years of groundbreaking research to explain how morality both binds us and divides us and how religion and politics create conflicting communities of shared morality.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone who wants to learn how moral decisions are made
- Anyone interested in understanding how our moral interests both unify and divide us