While Darwin believed in “survival of the fittest,” he was also fascinated with morality and how humans could develop it. It’s the product of natural selection – not an unintended side effect. Morality isn’t a Bugīefore we set to understanding how morality works, it’s important to recognize that morality was built into humans. While I didn’t resolve this discrepancy, I feel like I’ve made progress on understanding how one set of foundations can lead us to two different conclusions. I was trying to reconcile Predictably Irrational’s statement that we love the stuff we have more than the things we don’t – and the knowledge that we have covetousness in our societies. However, I had another reason to read it.
(The path is an extension by Dan and Chip Heath that shows up in Switch.) On this alone, I would have picked up the book. His previous work, The Happiness Hypothesis, contains the single-most useful tool in my tool bag for understanding myself and others. I stumbled on it while researching some other topics and realizing that Jonathan Haidt had written it. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion doesn’t give away that the book is about moral principles and what is – and isn’t – moral.
Plenty of people struggle with other people’s morality while quietly sweeping their own under the rug. Morality isn’t a place where most people stumble – or rather, it’s not a place where most people stumble into their reading.
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