The "first draft" of the moral mind:
"The initial organization of the brain does not rely that much on experience... Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises... 'Built-in' does not mean unmalleable; it means organized in advance of experience."
Gary Marcus
5 foundations of morality:
1. Harm/care
-bond w/ others and care for others
-strong feelings about those who cause carm
2. Fairness/reciprocity
3. Ingroup/loyalty
(n.b. the Ohio State Buckeyes reference!)
4. Authority/respect
5. Purity/sanctity
"If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease."
- Sent-ts'an, c. 700 C.E.
"A lot of the problems we have to solve are problems that require us to change other people. And if you want to change other people, a much better way to do it is to first understand who we are; understand our moral psychology, understand that we all think we are right. And then...step out of the moral matrix and try to see it as a struggle playing out in which everybody does think they're right and everybody at least has some reasons, even if you disagree with them, for what they're doing. And if you do that, that's the essential move to cultivate moral humility."
Jonathan Haidt
The Moral Mind
Jonathan Haidt's fascinating website where you can take anonymous moral studies and questionnaires.
TED Talks
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader. The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). www.TED.com makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free
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