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A groundbreaking investigation into the origins of morality, which turns out to be the basis for religion and politics. The book is timely (explaining the American culture wars and refuting the "New Atheists"), scholarly (integrating insights from many fields) and great fun to read (like... read more
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- Bill Clinton
- John Kerry
- Jesse Graham
- Ronald Reagan
- Scott Murphy
- Joshua Greene
- George Williams
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Daniel Dennett
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- Maria Cosway
- Chenbo Zhong
- Simon Baron-Cohen
- Jean Piaget
- Robert Zajonc
- Sam Harris
- Timaeus
- Christopher Boehm
- Alex Todorov
- Robert Trivers
- Drew Westen
- Dan Sperber
- Charles Darwin
- Dmitri Belyaev
- Ken Lay
- Richard Shweder
- Bernd Brandes
- Richard Sosis
- John McCain
- Joe Henrich
- Craig Joseph
- Immanuel Kant
- Pete Ditto
- Lawrence Hirschfeld
- Heinz
- David Perkins
- Tony Hsieh
- Asperger
- Gogo
- Alan Fiske
- Scott Atran
- William James
- Antonio Damasio
- Emile Durkheim
- Peter Wason
- Pete Richerson
- Robert Putnam
- Hitler
- Mark Leary
- Howard Margolis
- E. O. Wilson
- Adam Smith
- Elliot Turiel
- Phil Tetlock
- Thalia Wheatley
- Sena Koleva
- Bertrand Russell
- Christian Smith
- John Locke
- Jonathan Baron
- William McNeill
- Keith Richards
- Jeremy Bentham
- Dan McAdams
- Gary Marcus
- George W. Bush
- Jerry Muller
- Armin Meiwes
- Thomas Jefferson
- Richard Dawkins
- David Campbell
- Jayne
- Muzafar Sherif
- Robert Hare
- Mark Twain
- Ravi Iyer
- Rick Santelli
- Plato
- Dan
- Marx
- Barack Obama
- William Gibson
- Michael Tomasello
- Silvia Koller
- Julie
- Lawrence Kohlberg
- John Stuart Mill
- Brian Nosek
- Edmund Burke
- Max
- Virgin Mary
- Glaucon
- David Goldhill
- Dan Ariely
- Deanna Kuhn
- Rob Boyd
- Leon Kass
- David Hume
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes edit
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“Happiness comes from getting the right relationship between yourself and others, yourself and your work and yourself and something larger than yourself.”
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“College sport is a religious rite that pulls people from the profane to the sacred. It makes people feel that they are part of the whole. Augments school,spirit. Attracts better students and more alumni donation which improves the experience of the entire university.”
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“Conservatives understand liberals better than liberals understand conservatives. Liberals only focuse on three moral foundations care, fairness and liberty. Conservatives about all six”
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jonathan Haidt (Author)
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Page Count: 448
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Page Count: 448
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- Dewey: 201.615
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