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Analysis Of The Righteous Mind By Jonathan Haidt

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Report and reflection of the book “The righteous mind”

Jonathan Haidt while studying at the college put a goal to research human morality, its origin and development. His book "the Righteous mind" explores the morality and how it affects relationships between people? Is the moral in the genes, and occurs through education? The book examines the different conceptions of morality. Haidt mentions the theories of contemporary experts on ethics which demonstrate that young people can easily find justification for the actions that have recently all been condemned. In this paper, one can find the analysis and report on the book as well as reflection to one of the Haidt’s metaphor and how it applies in the life of mine.

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In his research Haidt asked provocative questions in different social groups: students, workers, employees and so on. He brought some wild story and asked to evaluate it from the point of view of morality. For example, a pet dog, almost a family member, was hit by a car. The owner is mourned, but then he remembered that he has never eaten dog meat. Instead of having to bury the dog, he ate it. The woman was going to do a General cleaning and was looking for rags for cleaning. Then she found the old American flag. She tore it to rags and washed them down the toilet. Mark and Julie are brother and sister. Once they're alone in a secluded place and decided to have sex. They were both adults free, when they were contraceptives. They decided that it would be closer to each other. The experience was successful.When Haidt asked people if the these actions of people were okay. To the question, why not eat a dead dog, the group of students gave answers like "meat can be harmful or dirty." You cannot wash the toilet with scraps of the flag, because they can clog the drain if you accidentally get there. You can't commit incest, because it can be born sick children — after all, no contraceptive does not give an absolute guarantee. All these rational explanations do not stand up to

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