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How does morality intersect with politics?

This article explores the intricate relationship between morality and politics, drawing on key theories and findings in moral psychology. It delves into various moral frameworks, such as those proposed by Haidt, and examines how cultural factors shape moral values. The text addresses the influence of wealth on individualism, the problems with WEIRD societies in moral psychology, and the evolutionary basis of moral triggers. Additionally, it contrasts liberal and conservative moral reactions, highlights moral themes across cultures, and discusses the concept of moral disgust.

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How does morality intersect with politics?

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  1. How does morality intersect with politics? Morality is more than harm and fairness (taste receptors)

  2. Henrich, Heine, & Noranzayan, 2010 • Are our participants too WEIRD? • Sears, 1988 • Cultures become more individualistic as they become richer. • Does this happen at the individual level too? • Do perceptions of morals and issues change too? • What are the problems of looking at WEIRD societies in terms of moral psychology? • How is a sociocentric morality different? • What were the moral themes found by Shweder in India? How do these relate to Haidt’s? WEIRD

  3. Any experiences dealing with different moral codes when traveling or in other situations? • Disgust—what do we find disgusting? Why are those triggers here and not elsewhere? • Rozin and McCauley—vertical dimension—What is Haidt’s idea here? • What is good and bad about moral disgust? • What elicits moral disgust among liberals vs. conservatives? Haidt’s revelations in India

  4. What determines what we get righteous about? • According to Haidt, why don’t liberals see conservatives clearly? • Duty to own guns and Harvard as Christ’s biggest enemy • How does Haidt’s approach differ from SJT? Morality and political orientation

  5. What does Haidt’s discussion of autism add to our understanding of moral psychology? • What about Kant and Bentham? • If people have different moral values, do they have different moral obligations? Ponderings on ethics

  6. What are some problems that can arise with evolutionary hypotheses? • What is the idea of modularity in evolutionary psychology? • How and why has culture expanded moral triggers over time? Evolutionary psychology

  7. Chart, page 125 • Care/harm • Fairness/cheating • Loyalty/betrayal • Authority/subversion • Sanctity/degradation • Liberty/oppression • What about gender and race? Moral foundations theory

  8. Why would this have evolved? • What triggers it? • Do these differ for liberals vs. conservatives? Care/harm

  9. Why would this have evolved? • What triggers it? • Do these differ for liberals vs. conservatives? • What triggers fairness for you? • How does Haidt suggest that proportionality evolved? • What does it mean to agree that the person who works the hardest should make the most? (hardest vs. best) Fairness/cheating

  10. Why would this have evolved? • What triggers it? • Do these differ for liberals vs. conservatives? Loyalty/betrayal

  11. Why would this have evolved? • What triggers it? • Do these differ for liberals vs. conservatives? • Are we innately hierarchical? Authority/subversion

  12. Why would this have evolved? • What triggers it? • Do these differ for liberals vs. conservatives? • What is the “behavioral immune system” and how does that relate to morality? • Who has stronger BISs? Does that relate to moral psychology? • What types of issues relate to sanctity? Sanctity/degradation

  13. Why would this have evolved? • What triggers it? • Do these differ for liberals vs. conservatives? • What is Haidt’s argument for our self-domestication? • Why does it feel good to punish rule-breakers? • How do people react to perceived affronts to their liberty? Liberty/oppression

  14. How do they differ on the 5 dimensions (plus 1)? • Does that give one group an advantage? • What are examples of ads/sound bites that appeal to each of the moral foundations? • What do liberals vs. conservatives tend to appeal to? • Figure p. 158 vs. 161 Liberals and conservatives(and libertarians)

  15. Honesty • Property/ownership • Waste/inefficiency Are there other moral foundations being left out?

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