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![]() ![]() “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion,” Haidt 2012 They are also summarized in the table below. I’ll briefly review each and discuss the political implications of these moral taste buds. Haidt, a psychologist, leans heavily on evolutionary psychology to explain the origins of these foundations. The Evolution of Haidt’s Moral Foundations ![]() Some people prefer salty food, some prefer sweet. Some people taste Fairness in terms of equality while others do so in terms of proportionality. ![]() Some political ideologies rely on the Care/Harm foundation while others rely on Loyalty/Betrayal. These moral foundations, according to Haidt, act as our political “taste buds” and explain our political preferences in the same way that our lingual taste buds explain our culinary preferences. Haidt argues that humans have six moral foundations through which we view politics and policy: Care/Harm, Fairness/Cheating, Loyalty/Betrayal, Authority/Subversion, Sanctity/Degradation, and Liberty/Oppression. In his groundbreaking book, “The Righteous Mind,” Professor Jonathan Haidt attempts to answer the first question by developing a framework that he calls Moral Foundations Theory (MFT). Why are good people divided by politics and religion? Why do some people like spicy food while others do not? The answers, it turns out, are related. ![]()
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