The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Audiobook (Free)

Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so easily assume the most severe about the motives of their fellow people? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way ahead to mutual understanding.

His starting point is moral intuition-the nearly instantaneous perceptions most of us have about other folks and the things they actually. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, about The Righteous Brain: Why Good FOLKS ARE Divided by Politics and Religion making us righteously certain that those who find things in a different way are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across ethnicities, including the ethnicities of the political left and correct. He blends his own study findings with those of anthropologists, historians, and various other psychologists to pull a map of the moral domains, and he points out why conservatives can navigate that map more skillfully than can liberals. Then examines the origins of morality, overturning the view that evolution made us fundamentally selfish creatures. But rather than arguing that people are innately altruistic, he makes a more delicate claim-that we are fundamentally groupish. It really is our groupishness, he clarifies, that leads to our best joys, our spiritual divisions, and our political affiliations. In a sensational final chapter on ideology and civility, Haidt displays what each side is ideal about, and why we need the insights of liberals, conservatives, and libertarians to flourish as a nation.