Notes for “The Evolutionary Basis for Morality”
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:
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