How the heart is inclined influences what the mind accepts as rational. Haidt’s major conclusion after undertaking major anthropological studies across continents, age groups and social classes, is that people think differently - process facts differently, reason differently, and argue differently, not because they are irrational, but because thinking is first and primarily an expression of one’s deeper moral inclination - what Haidt called intuition. The book is centred around the question of why people on the left and people on the right talk past one another, misrepresent one another, and think that each other irrational. More specifically, Haidt, a ethnically Jewish, politically left-leaning, and religiously atheist democrat, was interested in why people on the right politically were so irrational. Haidt, a social psychologist at the NYU-Sterm School of Business, is interested in how people think. The book is called “The Righteous Mind” by Jonathon Haidt. Russel Moore of the Southern Baptists called it “the most important book in years.” I saw an interview with the author sitting down with pastor Tim Keller, and a review by the Gospel Coalition. People were highly recommending it - that not strange, but what was strange was who was recommending it. I had heard it referenced on a number of podcasts I listen to, a couple of blogs that I read. This book had been on my radar for a while. I want to tell you about a book I’m reading.
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