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Notes for “The Evolutionary Basis for Morality”

April 14th, 2013

Six Foundations of Morality

(Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind)

Intuitions:  (intuition ≠ emotion)

Moral Foundation /  Moral Antonym

Care    / Hate
Fairness, Reciprocity    /  Cheating
Loyalty , Ingroup   /  Betrayal
Authority, Respect   /  Subversion
Sanctity, Purity     /  Degradation, Disgust
Liberty   /  Oppression   (this one is new)

(This list as found in the essay “Of Freedom and Fairness”  democracyjournal.org Issue Spring 2013)

(Care + Fairness + Liberty = Classical Liberalism (Hume -> Locke, Kant, Mills)

Video we watched at Sunday meeting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs41JrnGaxc

 Haidt’s website with morality surveys you can take:

http://www.yourmorals.org/

Further Reading:

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Incognito by David Eagleman

The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker

The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond

The Social Conquest of Earth by E.O. Wilson

The Reactionary Mind by Corey Robin

Supersense by Bruce M. Hood

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