Jonathan Haidt Discusses Morality at TED

I thought this one is appropriate because, although we all care deeply about education (liberals and conservatives), we tend to approach the solution to the current woes in education VERY differently. No Child Left Behind, for instance, which was inspired by a conservative focus on solutions to fixing the education system (”run schools like businesses”).

The FIVE pillars of moral reasoning are:

  1. Harm/Care (liberal)
  2. Fairness/Reciprocity (liberal)
  3. Ingroup/Loyalty (conservative)
  4. Authority/Respect (conservative)
  5. Purity/Sanctity (conservative)

He also discusses using incentives to encourage collaboration and giving in the video.

Jonathan Haidt’s The Happiness Hypothesis is also worth a read.

You can see the talk here at the TED website.

September 23, 2008

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