![]() Not surprisingly, my approach starts with Durkheim, who said: “What is moral is everything that is a source of solidarity, everything that forces man to … regulate his actions by something other than … his own egoism. Now, after eleven chapters in which I’ve challenged rationalism (in Part I), broadened the moral domain (in Part II), and said that groupishness was a key innovation that took us beyond selfishness and into civilization (Part III), I think we’re ready. It would not have meshed with your intuitions about morality, so I thought it best to wait. There’s a ,reason for that. The definition I’m about to give you would have made little sense back in chapter 1. ![]() You’re nearly done reading a book on morality, and I have not yet given you a definition of morality. Beginning on page 313 of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, by Jonathan Haidt ![]()
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