![]() ![]() In Haidt’s hands, evolutionary psychology loses the tunnel-vision it acquires from some of its proponents, and opens itself to insights from both sociology and philosophy. However, he is admirably non-reductive in his efforts. This causes him some difficulties: he has a paradoxical sympathy for moral conservatives, whose understanding of their own position tends to be anything but ‘external’ (they see themselves as having pretty much the only right perspective on morality). His approach, therefore, is necessarily ‘naturalistic’ or ‘external’ – meaning that he is concerned with explaining rather than justifying moral belief. His topic in this book is morality and its impact on politics, and he addresses it, primarily at least, from the perspective of evolutionary psychology – that is, by considering how our moral instincts might have evolved. Jonathan Haidt, although technically a psychologist, has sufficient expertise to write well on topics with relevance to philosophy. ![]() SUBSCRIBE NOW Books The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt Philip Badger finds The Righteous Mind difficult to believe unqualifiedly. ![]()
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