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Book: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
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  1. Jonathan Haidt _ The Righteous Mind: Why Good

    As I continued to read the writings of conservative intellectuals, from Edmund Burke in the eighteenth century through Friedrich Hayek and Thomas Sowell in the twentieth, I began to see that they had attained a crucial insight into the sociology of morality that I had never encountered before. They understood the importance of what I'll call moral capital. {Please note that I am praising conservative intellectuals, not the Republican Party.}36
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  2. Jonathan Haidt _ The Righteous Mind: Why Good

    European travelers to every continent witnessed people coming together to dance with wild abandon around a fire, synchronized to the beat of drums, often to the point of exhaustion. In Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy, Barbara Ehrenreich describes how European explorers reacted to these dances: with disgust.
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