Episode 6: The Righteous Mind & Political Morality

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In the first half of the episode, Ryan and Andrew discuss Jonathan Haidt’s Ted Talk about what he calls The Righteous Mind (this later became a book of the same name). Haidt suggests that there are five pillars of morality, and that said pillars manifest through political outlooks and ideologies. For the first half, Ryan and Andrew discuss three of these pillars: care/harm, fairness/reciprocity, and in-group loyalty. In the second half of the episode, they discuss the remaining two pillars: authority/respect and purity/sanctity.
In their discussion, Ryan and Andrew lay out how liberals (or, put another way, progressives) configure their moral matrix in a different manner than traditional conservatives. They disagree on a few issues that arise out of the conversation; but, they try to figure out the nature of the disagreement and diffuse the situation while maintaining the values articulated in the mission statement.
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Music Notes: “Minute by Minute” by David Hilowitz; to find more of his work, visit www.davehilowitz.com
Links:
Jonathan Haidt’s TedTalk, “The Moral Roots of Liberals & Conservatives”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs41JrnGaxc
Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics & Religion https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/0307455777/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525998087&sr=8-1&keywords=jonathan+haidt

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