{"id":2715,"date":"2017-03-15T11:52:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=2715"},"modified":"2017-03-15T11:52:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:52:20","slug":"the-righteous-mind-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2017\/03\/15\/the-righteous-mind-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Righteous Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found what Haidt was discussing throughout these three chapters to be incredibly interesting and thought provoking. It was helpful when he mentioned famous psychologists such as Piaget and Kohlberg and their different developmental stages. It was interesting to see how a child\u2019s morality is constructed through time and the effect that delays in the different stages can have on their ability to make moral decisions. It resonated with me when Haidt was discussing how a child\u2019s morality is self-constructed due to their experiences with other children. This idea brought me back to my Justice class where we read the novel <em>Just Mercy <\/em>by Brian Stevenson. In the novel, Stevenson brings up the idea of becoming proximate to a situation in order to be able to better understand it. I think that this is exactly what Haidt is talking about when he talks about morality being self-constructed with experiences- our decision and ability to make moral judgements starts from a young age due to the proximity that we have to certain situations. When we are younger, it is much harder to make moral decisions because we have not been exposed to as many difficult scenarios that require reasoning, however with time and more experiences we are (hopefully) better able to make better decisions. How proximate we are to certain situations will impact our decisions and our ability to empathize with others.<\/p>\n<p>It was also interesting how Haidt spoke about the tendency of individuals to make snap judgements based off of their emotions and then work to defend them. When dealing with moral choices, it is not really about a black and white \u201ctruth\u201d because there are so many different versions of the truth and what is seen as \u201cright\u201d by different societies. We as humans often make snap decisions that are rooted in our own interests and beliefs without even thinking about other possibilities, or how others would feel in a given situation. We must work to be more acutely aware of the social reasoning due to choices that individuals make, rather than censuring individuals on their choices. However, at the same time we must also work to be able to make sound judgements and back them up with sound reasoning. That is the ultimate dilemma because as humans we are so inclined to make decisions instantly and then defend them just because we think that we are right. Ultimately, one of our main downfalls as humans is our unfailing ability to succumb to our own stubbornness, rather than working to understand different types of reasoning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found what Haidt was discussing throughout these three chapters to be incredibly interesting and thought provoking. It was helpful when he mentioned famous psychologists such as Piaget and Kohlberg and their different developmental stages. It was interesting to see how a child\u2019s morality is constructed through time and the effect that delays in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3078,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}