This book is an attempt to understand the foundations of morality. What is morality? What are the various ways in which it manifests among different people? How to guide and leverage it in improving our institutions. Before going on into the details of the book, I have to commend the sheer audacity that is required to even begin a scientific analysis of a complex phenomenon of morality. Taking a step back, it seems that the western academia has immense confidence in the process of science and will subject anything and everything to the discipline of scientific inquiry. This book presents the evolution of the author in a chronological way and the formulation of moral foundation hypothesis. When his world was altered in a fundamental way (John Kerry losing elections), Haidt did not retrieve into the echo chamber. Instead, he sought out to read opposing perspectives and re-calibrate his understanding of the social and moral principles that guide the political discourse. Haidt goes further...
An attempt to express thoughts using words.