The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Time to Read
6 hrs 50 mins

Reading Time

6 hrs 50 mins

How long to read The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion?

The estimated word count of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion is 102,455 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 6 hrs 50 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 11 hrs 24 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 48 mins.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion - 102,455 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 11 hrs 24 mins
Average 250 words/min 6 hrs 50 mins
Fast 450 words/min 3 hrs 48 mins
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
Authors
Jonathan Haidt

More about The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

102,455 words

Word Count

for The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

448 pages

Pages
Hardcover: 448 pages
Paperback: 528 pages
Kindle: 460 pages

11 hours and 1 minute

Audiobook length


Description

Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.  His starting point is moral intuition—the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right. He blends his own research findings with those of anthropologists, historians, and other psychologists to draw a map of the moral domain, and he explains why conservatives can navigate that map more skillfully than can liberals. He then examines the origins of morality, overturning the view that evolution made us fundamentally selfish creatures. But rather than arguing that we are innately altruistic, he makes a more subtle claim—that we are fundamentally groupish. It is our groupishness, he explains, that leads to our greatest joys, our religious divisions, and our political affiliations. In a stunning final chapter on ideology and civility, Haidt shows what each side is right about, and why we need the insights of liberals, conservatives, and libertarians to flourish as a nation.