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Author Haidt, Jonathan.

Title The righteous mind : why good people are divided by politics and religion / Jonathan Haidt.

Imprint New York : Vintage Books, 2013.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  201.615 H125r 2013    ---  Available
Edition 1st Vintage books ed.
Description xxiv, 500 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Note Originally published in hardcover: New York : Pantheon Books, 2012.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-490) and index.
Contents Where does morality come from? -- The intuitive dog and its rational tail -- Elephants rule -- Vote for me (here's why) -- Beyond WEIRD morality -- Taste buds of the righteous mind -- The moral foundations of politics -- The conservative advantage -- Why are we so groupish? -- The hive switch -- Religion is a team sport -- Can't we all disagree more constructively?
Summary A groundbreaking investigation into the origins of morality, which turns out to be the basis for religion and politics. The book explains the American culture wars and refutes the "New Atheists."
Subject Religion and politics.
Judgment (Ethics)
Ethics.
Social psychology.
Political psychology.
Psychology, Religious.
ISBN 9780307455772
0307455777

 
    
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