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By Erich Vieth on October 21st, 2009
Tag: "emotion"
By Erich Vieth on September 10th, 2008
The incessant allure of Republican morality and what Democrats can do about it.
For the past few years, moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt has successfully injected a huge does of psychology into the study of morality. Along the way, he has gone a long way toward bridging the “is” with the “ought,” a chasm that many philosophers have insisted to be unbridgeable. Haidt explores these moral-psychological issues in highly [...]
By Erich Vieth on July 17th, 2008
Ordinary disgust taints moral judgments
I’ve written before about the work of Jonathan Haidt (pronounced “height”). He is a psychologist who has taken an experimental approach to investigating morality. I was highly impressed by Haidt’s analysis of conservative versus liberal versus of morality, for instance. In his previous work, Haidt determined that disgust played a significant role [...]
