Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives

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Uploaded on Sep 18, 2008

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most.

[ancianita]

1. man I love this

The Five Foundations! Great sell.

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2. This looks interesting. Marking for later. (nt)

[markpkessinger]

3. This is very interesting . . .

. . . so far as it goes. The idea of conservatism and liberalism being in a kind of balance is a nice, neat, attractive idea. But what the talk does not address is how we arrive at such a balance, when the forces that purport to be 'conservative' are not, in fact, conservative at all, but have in reality degenerated into an irresponsible radicalism -- and that's the situation we are dealing with.