Moral Psychology

I'm rereading (ok, listening to the audiobook of) self-described leftie author Jonathan Haidt's book The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion.  Love love love this book.

Haidt--yes, the same Haidt who's been in the press recently talking about the coddling of the American mind on university campuses--studies moral psychology, trying to ascertain where human morality comes from.  He's very fair-minded when describing moralities and cultures that are not his own.  Anyway, in this book, Haidt posits that there are 6 moral foundations, and that conservatives use all 6 of them and liberals primarily use 3 of them.  These foundations have done a lot to help me understand why people think the way they do.

If you'd like to learn about these 6 foundations, visits Haidt's web site at moralfoundations.org.  If you'd like to understand your own moral foundations, visit his yourmorals.org site.

I've written about Haidt a lot, just type his name into the search box at the top or bottom of this page to see more.