New Releases by Jonathan Haidt

Ética é o assunto do momento. A abordagem de Jonathan Haidt, embora localizada à geografia humana estadunidense, é um viés de análise da moralidade bem contemporâneo e que rompe em muitos momentos com o que o mundo acadêmico tem se debatido há séculos. Seu escopo é a defesa de que o raciocíonio moral é sempre e tão somente mera reação justificatória para fins reputacionais. Fazemos o que fazemos não por critérios metafísicos de certo e errado, mas por automatismos adquiridos evolucionariamente em paralelo com o desenvolvimento de tradições culturais - grupais - mais eficazes em durar mais tempo e produzir mais descendentes. Obviamente, a obra navega contra as marés fundamentalistas à esquerda e à direita sem naufragar em preferências ideológicas absolutas, tentando demonstrar que a moralidade é mais um jogo de resiliência e sobrevivência, uma arte para a convivência saudável. Criticado por conservadores e liberais ao mesmo tempo, Haidt consegue dar um passo à frente no desenvolvimento de uma "psicologia moral" que pode substituir tranquilamente as mais vetustas "filosofias morais". Fica a seu critério inventar desculpas (justificativas reputacionais) para ler ou não ler. Eis a questão.

To understand what drives the rift that divides our populace between liberal and conservative, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has spent twenty-five years examining the moral foundations that undergird and inform two differing world views: the political left and right place different values of importance on order, care, fairness, loyalty, authority, and liberty. From one of our keenest dissectors of moral systems, Why Do They Vote That Way? explains how deeply ingrained moral systems have estranged conservatives and liberals from one another while crossing the political divide in a search for understanding the miracle of human cooperation. A Vintage Shorts Selection. An ebook short.

New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction • A New York Times Notable Book • Bloomberg Best Book of 2018 • One of Bill Gates’s Top Five Books of All Time “Their distinctive contribution to the higher-education debate is to meet safetyism on its own, psychological turf . . . Lukianoff and Haidt tell us that safetyism undermines the freedom of inquiry and speech that are indispensable to universities.” —Jonathan Marks, Commentary “The remedies the book outlines should be considered on college campuses, among parents of current and future students, and by anyone longing for a more sane society.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising—on campus as well as nationally. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation, show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven into American childhood and education: What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker; always trust your feelings; and life is a battle between good people and evil people. These three Great Untruths contradict basic psychological principles about well-being and ancient wisdom from many cultures. Embracing these untruths—and the resulting culture of safetyism—interferes with young people’s social, emotional, and intellectual development. It makes it harder for them to become autonomous adults who are able to navigate the bumpy road of life. Lukianoff and Haidt investigate the many social trends that have intersected to promote the spread of these untruths. They explore changes in childhood such as the rise of fearful parenting, the decline of unsupervised, child-directed play, and the new world of social media that has engulfed teenagers in the last decade. They examine changes on campus, including the corporatization of universities and the emergence of new ideas about identity and justice. They situate the conflicts on campus within the context of America’s rapidly rising political polarization and dysfunction. This is a book for anyone who is confused by what is happening on college campuses today, or has children, or is concerned about the growing inability of Americans to live, work, and cooperate across party lines.

As America descends deeper into polarization and paralysis, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has done the seemingly impossible—he has explained the origins of morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to everyone on the political spectrum. Drawing on twenty-five years of groundbreaking research, Haidt shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong, and why we need the insights of each if we are to flourish as a nation. Here is the key to understanding the miracle of human cooperation and the eternal curse of moralistic aggression, across the political divide and around the world. A Vintage Shorts Selection. An ebook short.

Proč jsou v lidském jednání a rozhodování takové rozdíly? Jakou roli hraje v našem uvažování a rozhodování morálka? Tyto nelehké otázky, i to jak lidé dospívají ke svým názorům na politická, ale i mnohá další důležitá témata, zkoumá ve svém bestselleru psycholog Jonathan Haidt. Nejdříve shrnuje teorie starých filozofů a postupně se dostává až k současnosti, kdy spolu soupeří dva názory na původ morálky: Je morálka vrozená, nebo je dána především zkušenostmi, jež získáváme v dětství? Pokud je vrozená, tak jak to, že se lidské pohledy na různá morální témata napříč kulturami liší? A pokud je získaná, čím to, že v ní lze bez ohledu na rozdílnost kultur vystopovat určitý opakující se vzorec? Skutečnost je spíš taková, že naše morální úsudky jsou výsledkem intuice a rozumové uvažování přichází až dodatečně. Jsme tedy spíše cosi jako „intuitivní právníci“ – své rozumové uvažování nepoužíváme k nacházení pravdy, ale k k tomu, abychom obhájili názor, jejž vytvořila naše intuice. Haidt svůj odborný text velice čtivě prokládá vyprávěním o svém životě. Přibližuje své dětství, jež ho nasměrovalo k levici a liberalismu, i studijní pobyt v Indii, který ho přiměl vystoupit z navyklého stereotypu. Popisuje pět základů morálky a vysvětluje, proč sympatizantům levice záleží především na dvou z nich a proč se naopak morálka příznivců pravice většinou opírá rovnoměrně o všech pět základů. A přibližuje i to, jaká nedorozumění z toho vznikají. Dokáže tato kniha zúžit zvětšující se propast mezi individualistickými a sociocentrickými společnostmi a potažmo i mezi politickou levicí a pravicí?

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The #1 bestselling author of The Anxious Generation and acclaimed social psychologist challenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike—a “landmark contribution to humanity’s understanding of itself” (The New York Times Book Review). Drawing on his twenty-five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, Jonathan Haidt shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from gut feelings. He shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong, and he shows why each side is actually right about many of its central concerns. In this subtle yet accessible book, Haidt gives you the key to understanding the miracle of human cooperation, as well as the curse of our eternal divisions and conflicts. If you’re ready to trade in anger for understanding, read The Righteous Mind.

Explores ten great insights about man, the purpose of life, and happiness selected from diverse traditions and uses current scientific research to question and discuss the ideas.

Beschouwing over het vinden van geluk en levensvervulling, enerzijds vanuit filosofisch en religieus perspectief, anderzijds vanuit de benadering van de (positieve) psyhologie.