A moral psychologist on why good people are divided by politics and religion — intuition first, strategic reasoning second.
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Timaeus by Plato: “few are more colorful than the one in Plato's dialogue Timaeus. The narrator, Timaeus, explains how the gods created the universe, including us.”
Descartes' Error by Antonio Damasio: “I also read Descartes' Error, by the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio.”
Patterns, Thinking and Cognition by Howard Margolis: “I read an extraordinary book that psychologists rarely mention: Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition, by Howard Margo”
The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt: “I developed this metaphor in my last book, The Happiness Hypothesis, where I described how the ri”
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie: “Dale Carnegie was one of the greatest elephant-whisperers of all time. In his classic book How to Win Friends and Influence People, Carnegie”
Macbeth by William Shakespeare: “Zhong calls this the Macbeth effect, named for Lady Macbeth's obsession with water and cleansing after”
The Republic by Plato: “Plato's Republic—one of the most influential works in the Western canon—is an extended argument that you should pick heads, for your own good.”
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely: “In his book Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely describes a brilliant”
Switch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath: “Or, to borrow an idea from the book Switch, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath,54 you can change the path that the elephant and rider find themselves traveling on.”
Neuromancer by William Gibson: “particularly since William Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer. Gibson coined the term cyberspace”
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume: “His first great work, A Treatise of Human Nature, had this subtitle: Being”
The Koran: “The Koran, for example, is full of warnings about the duplicity of out-group members, particularly Jews, yet the Koran does not command Muslims to kill Jews.”
Inferno by Dante Alighieri: “Similarly, in The Inferno, Dante reserves the innermost circle of he”
Code of Hummarabi by Hummarabi: “The very first sentence of the Code of Hammurabi (eighteenth century BCE) includes this clause:”
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama: “In his book The Audacity of Hope, Obama showed himself to be a lib”
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill: “The patron saint of a contractual society is John Stuart Mill, who wrote (in On Liberty) that "the only purpose for which power”
Hierarchy in the Forest by Christopher Boem: “In his book Hierarchy in the Forest, Boehm concluded”
What's the Matter with Kansas by Thomas Frank: “That was the thesis of the popular 2004 book What's the Matter with Kansas?.)”
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin: “In a few remarkable pages of The Descent of Man, Darwin made the case for group selection”
the Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins: “Richard Dawkins did the same thing in his 1976 best seller The Selfish Gene, granting that group selection is pos”
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: “to Prepare for Opening Night of Romeo and Juliet.”
Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh: “There's a description of a rave experience in Tony Hsieh's autobiography Delivering Happiness.”
Treatise on the Law of Corporations by Stewart Kyd: “Here is an early definition, from Stewart Kyd's 1794 Treatise on the Law of Corporations:”
The Doctrine of Fascism by Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile: “Inspiring stuff, until you learn that it's from The Doctrine of Fascism, by Benito Mussolini.”
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchins: “followed by Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion, Daniel Dennett's Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, and, with the most explicit title of all, Christopher Hitchens's God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.”
Darwin's Cathedrals by David Sloan Wilson: “In his book Darwin's Cathedral, Wilson catalogues the ways that”
The Faith Instinct by Nicholas Wade: “In The Faith Instinct the science writer Nicholas Wade re”
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin by Charles Darwin: “Darwin records a similar experience in his autobiography: In my journal I wrote that whilst standing in midst of the grandeur of a Brazilian forest...”
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis by Edward O. Wilson: “In 1975 Wilson published Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. The book explored how natural selection... also shaped animal behavior.”
Darwin's Cathedral by David Sloan Wilson: “In his book Darwin’s Cathedral, Wilson catalogues the ways that religions have helped groups cohere, divide labor, work together, and prosper.”
Tractatus Politicus by Baruch Spinoza: Epigraph quotation attributed to —Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Politicus, 1676, used to open the book.
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The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt: “My second book, The Righteous Mind, lays out my own research on the evolved psychological foundations of morality.”