The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Our reasoning is flawed and prone to overconfidence, so it’s dangerous to construct theories based on pure reason, unconstrained by intuition and historical experience

Conservatives believe that people are inherently imperfect and are prone to act badly when all constraints and accountability are removed

Moral systems are interlocking sets of values, virtues, norms, practices, identities, institutions, technologies, and evolved psychological mechanisms that work together to suppress or regulate self-interest and make cooperative societies possible.

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

one younger. Both are fully attentive to the procedure, but the older nurse occasionally

between morality and food 2,300 years ago when

“skilled arguers … are not after the truth but after arguments supporting their views.”50