The Righteous Mind

This note last modified September 1, 2024

On how everyone thinks they are right, but fail to see the lenses that others are operating under.

#todo add TED talk

target the lenses
- Honestly I’m not super happy with how this note turned out… I feel like any well written note would really just be a rewrite of The Righteous Mind, so if you are interested in this topic, I suggest reading that.
- Oftentimes you simply cannot have an intellectual conversation with someone until you understand the way they think on a deep level. According to The Righteous Mind, people have core beliefs that the book calls moral matrices and that I call lenses. The book continues to talk about how these matrices are so fundamental that large swaths of arguments will simply fail because they don’t fit into someone’s moral matrix.
philosophy - books
- For someone with large swaths of his website dedicated to philosophy, I haven’t read too many books on it. For ethics I’m currently reading the fantastic book “The Fundamentals of Ethics” by Russ Shafer Landau. I also highly recommend The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt.
moral matrices
- Brought up The Righteous Mind