Friday, September 1, 2017

Jonathan Haidt. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Vintage, 2012. 530 p. $17.

Author
An influential social psychologist, professor at NYU.  This was his second book.

Benefit
After the election of Donald Trump, intellectuals scrambled to understand why people would demonstrate such callous neglect of their own self-interest by supporting a notoriously greedy businessman who had no desire to serve the public.  This is one of those books...

Haidt offers and argument that explains why people of every political persuasion are prone to voting for people who pretend to share their values = it's not a rational decision-making process but an intuitive one.

Agent
Brockman Inc