![]() It turns out, not surprisingly, that liberals ground their worldviews upon the values of “Care” over “Harm” to individuals, “Liberty” over “Oppression” and “Fairness” over “Cheating.” Fine. Haidt - a follower of David Hume - as the driving human force.) (Intuition, as distinguished from reason, seems to Mr. He does so on the basis of the Moral Foundations Theory he developed, categorizing the intuitive embraces that Americans of different philosophical stripes bestow on particular values. ![]() Haidt sees the two philosophical dispositions as supplying each other’s vacancies in significant ways. It’s that, but also much more than that, because Mr. It sounds like “Can’t we all just get along?” - the immortal query that came from the Los Angeles riots of two decades ago. (Libertarians, too, but they don’t figure as much here.) ![]() ![]() Haidt says, “is to change the way a diverse group of readers - liberal and conservative, secular and religious - think about morality, politics, religion, and each other.” He doesn’t stereotype, but he offers bold assertions, meant, on the basis of observation, scholarship and even website exposure, to demonstrate that by their own intuitive lights, liberals and conservatives need to cultivate mutual respect. The principal posture in which one envisions him is that of a scrappy, voluble, discerning patriot standing between the warring factions in American politics urging each to see the other’s viewpoint, to stop demonizing, bashing, clobbering. ![]()
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