In the book Righteous Mind by Jonathan Hadit a social psychologist at the University of Virginia discusses why he believes people more specifically the American people cannot get along in today's society. Haidt’s research examines the foundations of morality, and how morality varies across cultures–including the cultures of American liberals, conservatives, and libertarians. Hadit considered himself a strong supporter of liberals and then he started his research. In the book, he discusses, how the American public is divided by politics and Religion. He covers the topics that no one desires to talk about because people who decide to touch on these topics end up in arguments because no one can simply agree on political and religious views. According to Jonathan Hadit, people cannot get along because people do not understand where the other party is coming from, and they want the other party to understand their point of view and to agree with them. …show more content…
Jonathan Hadit believes that people are more passionate about their topics than rational.
Meaning people run with an idea and once they believe that idea they won't be able to agree with the other side. There's no explaining your opinion to someone else who strongly disagrees with what you're saying. In righteous mind, Jonathan has it discusses how you can persuade someone to believe you-you won't be able to manipulate them into agreeing with you or somehow seeing the other side. You have to see the other side first in order to persuade the other person that your side is correct. Somehow have to show interest on their topic in order to get them to agree with you. In the righteous mind, Jonathan hasn't doesn't want to come out on top educate people on topics that people are so afraid to discuss. Happy I want others to know that politics religious views about who's right who's wrong it's more than manipulation it's about learning from the other
party. In order to do that, you need to know where morality comes from which is one of the topics he discusses in his book. Jonathan Habit comes to a conclusion bad people do not have blank slates at birth people come into the world knowing information and our experiences just supervise what we know from the beginning. Haidt discusses the five foundations of morality which are harm care, fairness and cheating, loyalty and betrayal, authority and subversion, liberty and oppression, and sanctity and Module. Harm care is something that we're all born with. As mammals, we have the automatic reaction whether or not to harm someone or to care for someone depending on the situation. For example, if you are a mother you just gave birth your initial reaction is to care for the child and to make sure the child has everything he or she needs in order to survive. If someone were to bring harm to your child you would defend your child because that is your initial reaction if you care and love your child. Fairness and cheating people choose whether or not they will be there or they will cheat. For example, if you're playing a game of Uno and you want to win and you could pick up extra cards or shuffle the deck and take out all the drawers and keep them for yourself or you can play the game the way it would be fair for everyone whether you win or lose. With loyalty over to be in a relationship with someone, you can choose to stay with them through thick and through thin or you can cheat on them and be with someone else that doesn't make it right that's just my nature to do one or the other. Only in humans there large groups of your loyalty. Authority respect is taught very young you learn to respect your elders and whoever is older than you are told to do whatever they say to do. And lastly purity and sanctity nothing in this actual form but what you put into your body and what you eat because there's a saying you are what you eat. Habit explains that we are all born with these five moralities and the world we grow up in shapes these moralities. Depending on where you're from addictive your political views. It stated that if you grow on the east side rather than the south your views are more liberal and if you grow up further south your views are more Republican.“ Everyone cares about fairness, but there are two major kinds. On the left, fairness often implies equality, but on the right it means proportionality- people should be rewarded in proportion to what they contribute, even if that guarantees unequal outcomes” (Hadit 161). As people are natural reaction is to care for others like he says we all care about fairness and want everyone to be create treated fairly. But one side represents that the wealthy should be the tax instead of the working middle class. The wealthy makes about 1% of the population in America and most liberals believe that the wealthy should be taxed in order to save are working middle class that makes America. But Republicans believe that work ethic should be spread instead of well meaning we should teach the people who collect welfare in food stamps how to work instead of giving them. That ideology is put in place because people believe that people who are on welfare or collect government funding are lazy and do not want to work for what they have and said they want the government to make them comfortable. That always isn't the case in some cases people need government assistance in order to survive and America does a great job and getting people funding in government assistance. Taking away, government assistance would be saying it's okay for people to sleep on the street one of America's goals was to make sure that everyone is equal no matter how much money they make or how little money they make that the government would be able to provide assistance for the American people. Many people are not lazy many people want to work and they just can't for whatever reason hand it to them. In reading this book, I realized it is only fair the tax the wealthy and not the working middle class because the working middle class it's barely surviving on what they have in the wealthy has more than enough. Toward the end of the book, he talks about how we are blinded by mortality and how people should all just get along.“So the next time you find yourself seated beside someone from another matrix gives it a try. Don’t just jump right in. Don’t bring up morality until you’ve found a few points of commonality or in some other way established a bit of trust. And when you do bring up issues of morality, try to start with some praise, or with a sincere expression of interest. We’re all stuck here for a while, so let’s try to work it out” (Hadit 244). As people, we all have different views and in some cases, we think we are right because we're passionate about the topic. Jonathan Habit reminds its okay to have that passion, but it is also important to listen to the other person.If you truly believe you are right then you will gain the other person's trust and then tell them what you think. The first thing you do is to not yell at them but to listen so, they know you hear them and then you begin to explain your points. You will never win or get someone to understand your point of view yelling or getting angry in order to win you have to stay calm. Ultimately you can just listen and the other person may change your mind completely and that is perfectly okay. In conclusion, Jonathan Habit being the great psychologist that he is has taught everyone who reads his book that winning an argument isn't the most important thing. Everyone of course when someone an argument to be the top dog or to be on top no matter what it takes. In reading, I discovered that it's not about winning it's about learning and understanding whatever the subject may be. If you win or continue to argue you may not learn or may not discover what you need to discover in order to succeed Ford to become advanced enough to win an argument. One of the most important things is to listen and to expect the unexpected maybe just maybe it might change your opinion on whether to be blue or to be read or to believe in God or to simply be an atheist. Whatever you may choose whatever you strongly believe in you must remember to always listen and to gain someone's trust. In an intro to American girl we discovered how our democratic system works, parties, elections, and how maybe undemocratic at all maybe. Where Jonathan Haidt ideology may work best as one Democrats and Republicans go toe to toe with each other on whose policy is better. Like Jonathan Haidt said if we all learn how to get along because we're all going to live on this earth a very long time we should learn how to get along with each other. Instead, of Democrats and Republicans yelling at each other attacking one another to get them to listen to each other, they should sit back and listen to the other party. Forget everything that they've learned about Democrats and Republicans come in with a totally blank slate ready to learn ready to trust again in order to accomplish one big goal to make America the best.
In chapter one, Fiorina begins with a powerful quote from Pat Buchanan’s 1992 speech at the Republican National Convention, “There is a religious war…a cultural war as critical to the…nation…as the cold war…for this war is for the soul of America” (Fiorina et al. 1). Using several other quotes, he illustrates the belief that the nation is torn between personal morals and extreme conservative notions. He then states his belief that these sentiments are complete nonsense, and exaggerations. There is no culture war according to Fiorina, no war for the soul of America. Describing the culture war as a myth caused by lack of information, misrepresentation of facts by activists, and selective media coverage. He suggests that Americans are essentially bystanders avoiding the cross fire between the left and right wing activists. Furthermore, he contrasts that it is the American choices that are polarized due to politicians, thus creating the appearance of a politically polarized society. Finally, he concludes the first chapter by outlining his argument in the following chapters. Fiorina does an exceptional job hooking the reader with his first chapter, the quotes and various examples of how America is portrayed as polarized are effective in swaying the audience to agree and then he shocks the reader by debunking all previous statements with his personal beliefs and outline for how he plans to prove his argument.
Finding a way in life can be difficult. Following that way can be even more difficult, especially when it goes against someone's origin. In Acts of Faith, Eboo Patel tells his story of what it was like to struggle through finding himself. Patel asks the question of "How can I create a society of religious pluralism?" throughout the book, and raises implications about what our children are being taught in different societies throughout the world.
In the article “Moral Disagreements”, Kwame Anthony Appiah discusses how disagreements occur when value based questions are asked. Appiah states the relevance of this topic by mentioning that individuals do not have to go to distances in order to be engaged in a moral discussion. Due to technology the world is more connected than ever, brining everyone together regardless of location. This results in the display of various cultures, believes and values. It is important to keep in mind that “if we are to encourage cosmopolitan engagement, moral conversations between people across societies, we must expect disagreements.” According to Appiah it is crucial to understand that every society is unique. There are similarities across societies
Religion, by far, is one of the most dominant forces the human race has ever seen. It has influenced and continues to influence billions of people all over the world. It has driven some of the most beneficial cooperative humanitarian efforts and some of the most heinous acts of violence anybody can perpetuate on another human being. In his book, When Religion Becomes Evil, Dr. Charles Kimball explores the causes and slippery slopes that lead to these kinds of atrocious behaviors. Many of his points were incredibly well thought out and valid, but one repetitive phrase that Dr. Kimball used caught my attention: “authentic religion.” This one phrase contains so many troublesome presuppositions that it is impossible not to question.
Analysis of Buddhism Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen The book Buddhism Plain and Simple, by Steve Hagen, caught my attention and became more interesting to me than I thought. I have always heard of the religion Buddhism, but I never knew what it was all about. I never thought that Buddhism was as huge as it is. I knew that it existed in other countries, but I never knew what exact countries. Many of the views in this book surprised me and the book taught me a lot about morals and better ways to live your life.
In being so diverse, the lives and beliefs of many different cultures here in America are accepted. One major example, is religion. Jews and Arabs, who are enemies in there Jammal 2 countries, live in the United States in harmony. Another example are the Muslims and Hindu’s, who hate and kill each other in their countries, and yet can live in America side by side in peace because of Thomas J...
James Wilson’s article, “How Divided are We?”, attempts to convince the reader that there is polarization (a culture war) in the United States. Wilson does not define polarization by partisan disagreements solely, rather as “an intense commitment to a candidate, a culture, or an ideology that sets people in one group definitively apart from people in another, rival group” (Canon 205). This polarization stretches to the extent that one group’s set of beliefs is totally correct and the rival is wholly wrong (Canon 206). Wilson provides three chief factors for the growth of polarization...
American political culture emphasizes the values of liberty, equality, and democracy. Most of America’s debating is not over whether these issues are important, but how to best go about achieving these ideas. American’s define liberty as freedom, but America believes that liberty should be contained on some levels so they can create a stable society. The definition of freedom is that we can do whatever we want, as long as we do not affect another person’s freedom. American’s want to be able to do what they want, while not affecting someone else. So some rules are set to protect people and create a stable society.
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No other independent enlightenment in the world allows individual independence to the United States of America. American courts, especially the Supreme Court, have improved a set of lawful policies that comprehensively shelter all types of the power of appearance. When it comes to appraising the level to which people take benefit of the occasion to convey believes, many members of culture can be accountable for misusing the boundary of the First Amendment through openly offending others through racism or obscenity (Karen O’Connor & Larry J. Sabato 2006). America is what it is because of the Bill of rights and the Constitution of the United States of America. The ratification of the Constitution warranted that religious dissimilarity would continue to develop in the United States. American has enhanced a different nature toward the power of word throughout history.
Introduction: Neither the resolve of patriots nor the labor of men freed Americans from the hands of tyranny. The fathers of this nation, as well as those who fought for her ability to prosper were united by their unwavering faith and trust in God. The future of this world lay heavily upon their shoulders, yet they carried the burden willingly for the duration of their lives and passed it down from generation to generation. As a result, a new nation was born and grew into one of the most powerful countries of the world. Although America began as a Christian nation, it has pulled away from the fundamental beliefs that held this nation together. Despite their ancient predecessor’s emphasis on faith and Christianity, the current government has taken a more secular path. The legality of abortion and the exclusion of religious references in public institutions are a couple of examples how morality has been corrupted within the government. Society itself also forsakes the religious path, twisting the concept of morality to fit the lifestyles they wish to lead. David Barton uses line graphs to demonstrate the decrease of morality since 1950. Violent behavior, the circulation of sexually transmitted diseases, and the birth rate for unwed girls, has drastically inclined while educational achievement and family stability have dropped at an accelerated rate (242). It is apparent through the government’s choices, the media, and the attitudes present in average society that Americans have drifted far away from the principles on which this country was founded. Without a genuine faith and trust in God, American society will continue to deteriorate until memories of a once great nation are all that remains.
In the past few years, America has been becoming more and more liberal with its stance on various issues. We are changing laws and practices that have long been in place, and while some view it as progressive, others view it as morally wrong. By encouraging changes in practices that were established with a Biblical mindset, America has begun to subtly alienate the Christian. Although America is still a land where individuals are free to practice their faith freely, it is becoming harder to display...
Another issue that can be applied to the church, ministry, and society today is the choice of accepting the truth. “Modern people, Berger contends, find themselves confronted not only by many possible courses of action, but also by many possible ways of thinking about the world. As a result all life has become consumer oriented. We choose not only between toothpastes, but between the very “plausibility” structures that give our lives coherence and meaning” (Hauerwas p7). “In fact, our deepest conviction, our surest...
The United States is a unique country, all different kinds of people live together in this society. When diverse people live in the same country, many complications take place. One being when people judge the different. There will always be groups here in the US that don’t agree or get along with each other causing conflict and violence. So why does everyone still live here with people they don’t get along with? Why don’t they just move away or decide to live in a society with people who all have the same opinions? Well, conflict unites us, brings us together even through all our hostilities, we always have something that mixes us together despite our differences.
Our world is constantly changing and it requires a society that is well versed in understanding the problems deriving from culture differences and tolerance of one another’s beliefs and perceptions. We are dealing with systemic problems in education, economic, government, religion and culture differences.