Jonathan Haidt — The Psychology of Self-Righteousness
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Is There More to Morality Than Harm and Fairness?
When he entered the field in 1987, it was dominated by people who were pretty far left. He says morality is part of human nature and evolved as our primate ancestors became cultural creatures that lived in larger groups than these groups competed with each other. The interesting puzzle, which is now being solved, is how did the West get so weird? John Sutter: When every of a society that has those five attributes, the moral domain shrinks down; individualism rises up.
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