The Righteous Mind
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- Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although itās very difficult to empathize across a moral divide. (LocationĀ 953)
- Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises.ā¦ āBuilt-inā does not mean unmalleable; it means āorganized in advance of experience.ā (LocationĀ 2256)
- Moral systems are interlocking sets of values, virtues, norms, practices, identities, institutions, technologies, and evolved psychological mechanisms that work together to suppress or regulate self-interest and make cooperative societies possible. (LocationĀ 4504)
- More specifically, moral capital refers to the degree to which a community possesses interlocking sets of values, virtues, norms, practices, identities, institutions, and technologies that mesh well with evolved psychological mechanisms and thereby enable the community to suppress or regulate selfishness and make cooperation possible. (LocationĀ 4881)