Jonathan Haidt

of nature vs nurture; is it simply how we were designed to be that dictates how we calculate morality? Or is it that environment and circumstances under which we were raised? Piner would agree with the latter, and possibly quote psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, in saying that there are five themes of moral thinking - “ … harm, fairness, community (or group loyalty) authority and purity - and suggests that they are the primary colors of our moral sense” (53). Pinker goes on to reinforce his premise,…

students have come up with a solution to the issue, trigger warnings. According to Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff’s The Coddling of the American Mind, trigger warnings are alerts for professors to give their students if trauma-trigging material is going to be taught (Haidt and Lukianoff 44). These trigger warnings fall under the category microagressions. Microagressions are words or actions that other…

providing his listeners with an understanding of his moral beliefs. As Jonathan Haidt illustrates in his book The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, people’s decisions and actions are driven by their emotional and moral beliefs subconsciously, and the logic and reasoning people provide to defend these decisions and actions are developed…

because both show signs of omission as well as raising the question of who gets to decide what is omitted. However, the difference between the two topics is the party that wants the cleansing. In “The Coddling of the American Mind,” Lukianoff and Haidt explain that it is the students of America’s colleges and universities who feel the need to “scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense.” Although it is a different party that wants change in a…

The article Why It's a Bad Idea to Tell Students Words Are Violence, by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff create an argument about the influence of words on new generation students. The authors come out with some ideas about are words harmful to us through analyzing Lisa Feldman Barrett essay. Feldman Barrett believes that words can bring us chronic stress, and then it will lead to physical harm, that means that words can cause violent. However, it only shows that words can cause physical harm…

“The Coddling of the American Mind” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt describes how the overuse of trigger warnings is ruining students’ education and their ways of thinking, while also addressing steps to counteract this crisis. The authors’ main argument states that students are starting to implement an ideology that erases any mention of words or ideas that could potentially offend them or students around them. Lukianoff and Haidt argue that this proves to be extremely disadvantageous for…

personal control is present. We as humans are governed by the law living with restrictions and boundaries that place barriers’ on our everyday life and strain us from doing exactly what we want. One example would be the Elephant and the Rider by Jonathan Haidt in his book The Happiness Hypothesis. This metaphor expresses the idea of Control Vs Automatic. Human people are controlled by the inner self, or by the people in power above them. “Just as your alarm clock lacks the possibility to choose…

In this paper I will argue Cartesian dualism offers a more rational explanation of reality than Darwinian monism. I believe people have both body and soul, and they interact with each other. Jonathan Haidt described the relationship between body and soul as “like a rider on the back of an elephant”(11) in his book “The Happiness Hypothesis”. Our body like an elephant, our soul like a rider on it’s back and try to control it. But the problem is that the soul is not always a good rider. For…

In The Atlantic Magazine, an article entitled, “The Coddling of the American Mind” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt addressed and issue occurring on college campuses. That issue is trigger warnings and its impact on the academe. This study asks a question: Are trigger warnings impacting the academic freedom of faculty? The University of Chicago is one of many institutions willing to take on the issue, establishing a position in support of its facility and academic freedom. In 1902, then…

To properly understand moral intuitions, it is important to bear in mind their evolution within a social context. Specifically, we ought to contemplate their role within groups of humans, which, as social animals, we evolved in. Doing so will come into play once we consider the limitations and problems that face the utilisation of intuitions in moral theory. In terms of social groups, our moral psychology, and our moral intuitions, serve as devices for enabling and promoting cooperation between…