Jonathan Haidt

Berry, David. “How South Park Pokes Fun at Political Correctness Without Being Dismissive.” The National Post. Nationalpost, 5 Oct. 2015. Web. 01 Sep. 2017. David Berry conducts a critical analysis of the 19th season of the hit satirical comedy show South Park. Berry praises show creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, for creating a season that revolves around making fun of today’s PC culture without being completely dismissive to the plight of the members of the left-wing. South Park may be…

American Mind, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt explain cognitive distortions in their discussion of cognitive behavioral therapy as a source of mental treatment. Of particular interest is the ninth item in their list of common cognitive discussions, namely blaming: “...focusing on the other person as the source of your negative feelings, and refusing to take responsibility for changing yourself.” My failure to take responsibility is exactly what Lukianoff and Haidt wrote about. I was…

In his 2005 paper “Ethics and Intuitions,” Peter Singer seeks to find a new role for intuitions in moral theorizing in light of studies by Jonathan Haidt and Joshua Greene, which seem to cast doubt on the reliability of moral intuitions. These studies suggest that much of our moral reasoning is less based in rationalizing and more based in instinctual “gut” reactions, and that these instincts can be explained in terms of their evolutionary history. Further, Greene in particular demonstrates that…

Has Political Correctness Gone too Far? Everyday in society we hear people say things like, “They’re just a racist,” “Stop being a bigot,” or “What a sexist pig.” Who would want to disagree with the people making these accusations? You would then be accused of the same thing. What happens when people make these accusations, that you’re racist, sexist, homophobic, or a bigot? Well, it becomes your reputation, it can destroy your career, or invalidate a lifetime of good work. We see people that…

Colleges campuses, once a beacon for progressive reforms, stimulating discussions, and engaging debates, recently have been scrubbed clean of language that may be perceived as offensive or hurtful to minority students through the use of speech codes. Speech codes seek to protect the mental health of college students, and punish harassment that occurs on campus, however because of their ambiguous wording, they have been stretched to censor unpopular opinions and important discussions. By…

Ethic of Divinity depends on sacred order, natural order, sanctity, and tradition. It defends “the souls, the spirit, the spiritual aspects of the human agent and “nature” from degradation” (Shweder,2003,p.138). Indeed, this theory was expanded by Jonathan Haidt, Draig Joseph and Jesse Graham, which is known as the Moral Foundations Theory. This theory is fairly an advanced theory originated from the Tripartite Theory. It develops Sweder’s three ethics into six succinct listing of moral order.…

Knowledge itself can be referred to as personal knowledge applied by prior experiences, or classified as shared knowledge when demonstrating qualities worth of admiration or considerable importance, through practical or theoretical circumstances. The purpose of knowledge application is to generate a result, where human beings recognise their roots to give value to their future actions. Value is a very subjective word that can have a scope of interpretations regarding how can it be measured. The…

not serve as enough proof to refute this take on the support for Trump. However, it does make room for other possible interpretations. Hochschild then moves on to the gain of Trump support through values, religion and morality. According to Jonathan Haidt, conservatives sometimes do not vote based on economic interests but rather vote based on “moral interests”. However, Hochschild refutes this by stating that polls have shown that most of the white Protestant Republicans support Donald…

tension within one’s self, must be provided by the Professors to ensure that material presented does not offend or upset ant student in class. College individuals should know by now that not everything will go as they would like them to go. As Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff said in the article The Coddling of the American Mind, “You can never achieve happiness by making the world conform to your desires” (52). If an individual expects others to make actions that…

In their magazine article “The Fragile Generation”, Lenore Skenazy and Jonathan Haidt stated “Yet modern child-rearing practices and laws seem all but designed to cultivate this lack of preparedness. There’s the fear that everything children see, do, or lick will hurt them.” Some new parents may not be prepared for the job set…