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six-foundation morality
Do Liberals Really “Care” More?
In Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion Haidt makes the following observation about liberal morality: But if you try to apply this two-foundation [i.e., liberal] morality to the rest of the world, you either fail or you become Procrustes. Most traditional societies care about a lot more than harm/care and fairness/justice. Why do so … Continue reading
The Root Cause of the Political Divide
Liberals and conservatives literally live in different worlds with different dimensions. It is not enough to describe moral foundations merely as taste buds as Haidt does in one of the metaphors he uses to help us understand his theory. And it is not even enough to describe moral foundations as the color receptors of … Continue reading
Conclusion
If moral foundations are products of natural selection, then they exist for a reason. The reason is that they help us to perceive, think about, and respond to threats to our individual and collective well being. They are threat detection modules. The more foundations each of us employs in our moral vision, the wider our … Continue reading
I Support Viewpoint Diversity
A politically diverse group of social scientists, natural scientists, humanists, and other scholars who want to improve our academic disciplines and universities. We share a concern about a growing problem: the loss or lack of “viewpoint diversity.” When nearly everyone in a field shares the same political orientation, certain ideas become orthodoxy, dissent is discouraged, and errors can go unchallenged.
Venn Diagram of Liberal and Conservative Traits and Moral Foundations and
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