The righteous mind- Jonathon Haidt 98.9 Fm Columbus ... Dennis Prater Show 6-25-13

 

The following book appears interesting.  I just listened a little to Jonathan Heidt on 98.9FM The Answer- Dennis Prater.  A young teacher in the Cafe' of Xenos told us that polls have found that secular people view Christians as critical and judgmental.  I know that many of my friends and family think that of me.  You should nmot discuss politics or religion.  That's argumentative.  With the secular leaders of our country now we should all be willint to discuss the liberal view vs. the conservative view.  Polls show that 86 % of Americans believe ikn God and 14 % do not/  In spite of the basic thought, mostly young voters eleced obama 2ho is either secular or muslim.  I believe he is muslim  as he once declared, as such, he supports the tenants of the Koran which mentions Jihads and Kill the  Infidels- i.e. any who are not muslims.  The 14 % and some non-voting conservatives helped elect thius guy for his second term and he is fundamentally changing America.  No communist or socialist nation has ever lasted so long as our demopcracy in America which has been greatly blessed by God.  How much longer will God tolerate our citizens or our non-representative leaders?  God is in control and He will make the call.  It is prophesied that Christ will come again to the earth and rule for a thousand years.  Nobody knows when.

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THE RIGHTEOUS MIND

Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt

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A well-informed tour of contemporary moral psychology.
Haidt (Psychology/Univ. of Virginia; The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, 2005, etc.) lays out a rich landscape of morality, presenting a cross-cultural, evolutionarily sensible scenario wherein a moral universe can be shaped from six moral foundations: care/harm, fairness/cheating, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, sanctity/degradation and liberty/oppression. Haidt examines, via a wide array of theories, research and experimentation, how various subsets—for instance, the WEIRD (Western, educated, industrial, rich, democratic) group—emphasize one or more of the foundations with respect to group traditions and evolutionary progress. He explains how he has arrived at an intuitionist’s rather than a rationalist’s stance regarding the elemental governing of our moral behavior—a framework with us at birth, though not deterministic—how our reasoning comes later to justify our social agenda and how moral intuitions such as loyalty, authority and sanctity gather such subjective importance and potential evolutionary value. He arrives at a broad definition of moral systems as “interlocking sets of values, virtues, norms, practices, identities, institutions, technologies, and evolved psychological mechanisms that work together to suppress or regulate self-interest and make cooperative societies possible.” Haidt finds within Western democracies an ethnic and moral diversity that is best served by utilitarianism, producing the greatest total good, and that happiness comes from “getting the right relationships between yourself and others, yourself and your work, and yourself and something larger than yourself.”
A cogent rendering of a moral universe of fertile complexity and latent flexibility.