Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
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- Oct 31, 2013
- #Psychology #Philosophy
Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us) and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern times have forced the world’s tr...
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Number of Pages: 432
ISBN: 1594202605
ISBN-13: 9781594202605
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Chris Boutté @TheRewiredSoul
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Jun 2, 2022
Rereading this banger
Chris Boutté @TheRewiredSoul
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Jun 6, 2022
this book is so good
Chris Boutté @TheRewiredSoul
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Jun 6, 2022
- Curated in Weekly Reading List 6.6.22
Moral Tribes was one of the first books I read about moral philosophy and politics, and I wanted to give it another read. Now that I’ve read so many books on the topic, this book was twice as good since I was able to comprehend more of Greene’s ideas, research, and arguments. This book does such a fantastic job explaining why we’re tribal, why we see things as right or wrong, and so much more. Reading this book again also reminded me that this was the book that sold me on utilitarianism in the form of what he calls “deep pragmatism”.
This is a must-read book to better understand ourselves as well as everyone else. I can’t recommend it enough.