moral matrices

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Brought up The Righteous Mind

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  • x-phi
    • Experimental philosophy. Are the moral matrices of Americans different than those of Europeans? Of Mongolians?

  • target the lenses
    • 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.

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