![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A profound modesty permeates Haidt’s view - a view informed by a scientific understanding of the deeply emotional, intuitive, selfish, and groupish nature of our moral psychology. Arguably, a core question for Haidt is what type of understanding will truly help people to resolve conflicts? While awe, wonder, and curiosity may be a useful starting point for the development of a perspective on conflict, some form of functional, applied understanding is needed to resolve political and religious conflicts. His goal is to drain some of the heat, anger, and divisiveness out of political and religious debate and replace them with awe, wonder, and curiosity. In his new book, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, Jonathan Haidt argues that our political and religious preferences - a perennial source of divisiveness and conflict - are an expression of our underlying moral psychology, and he anticipates that an understanding of our moral psychology may help to bring people together, offer them a new perspective on ongoing conflicts, and possibly facilitate conflict resolution. The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. ![]()
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