Stephen Messenger certainly knows his moral foundations but I have always found his thesis that conservative morality is objectively superior because it draws on all moral foundations while liberals draw much more strongly on half somewhat akin to the naturalistic fallacy.https://twitter.com/AreoMagazine/status/1055897417839718401 …
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The moral foundations are about half the story. Cognitive style also matters. A lot. And may even be the determining factor as to how the foundations are applied.http://quillette.com/2018/04/20/towards-cognitive-theory-politics/ …
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Haidt talks about the two main cognitive styles in a few places. places. First, in The Righteous Mind, in his discussions of WEIRD thinking on the left vs holistic thinking on the right.https://theindependentwhig.com/haidt-passages/haidt/weird-morality-and-style-of-thought/ …
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Second, in top-down globalist terms on the left versus bottom-up parochial terms on the right.http://ccare.stanford.edu/videos/meng-wu-lecture-jonathan-haidt/ …
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Third, picking up on Sowell’s unconstrained thinking on the left vs constrained thinking on the right, expressed as the Telos of Social Justice vs the Telos of Truth, he calls them two incompatible “sacred values” but they’re really two cognitive styles.https://youtu.be/Gatn5ameRr8
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These two cognitive styles are evident through 2,400 years of human history, overviewed by Arthur Herman in his book The Cave and the Light:pic.twitter.com/pAN2kw6cRs
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Cognitive style is a moral foundation, in the sense of an “evolved psychological mechanism” (from Haidt’s definition of morality) of social cognition, that he missed, or at least severely underestimated.
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The difference between the social justice left in your Grievance Studies project and the traditional left (like
@HPluckrose@ConceptualJames and@JonHaidt) is cognitive style: WEIRD Platonic idealists in grievance studies vs holistic Aristotelian empiricists in traditional left. -
This short video goes to what I’m talking about.https://youtu.be/KjjME3oYbps
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