Imagine a man riding on the back of an elephant. Here this metaphor is that of a rider on an elephant. Like any book about rationality - it needs a central catchy metaphor for how the brain works. For me, it provided a fresh viewpoint on rationality, which has stuck with me ever since. It centers on moral psychology, but applies just as well to almost any issue people care deeply about: politics, religion, group affiliation, etc. It’s about how people actually form opinions and make choices, in a way that is very different from the ideal Bayesian decision maker. The first part of “The Righteous Mind” could hold its own as a book about thinking and rationality, but it’s disguised as being about moral psychology. But it also covers the interplay between intuitions and reason, community building, group selection, the importance of culture and religion, eating dog carcasses, and much more. Specifically, how they think about morality and make moral judgments and choices. In that vein, “The Righteous Mind” by Jonathan Haidt is a book about how other people think. They say cognitive biases are what other people have.
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