Righteous Mind

Haidt and his colleagues have compiled a catalog of six fundamental ideas that commonly undergird moral systems: care, fairness, liberty, loyalty, authority, and sanctity. Alongside these principles, he has found related themes that carry moral weight: divinity, community, hierarchy, tradition, sin, and degradation.

David Hume, the Scottish philosopher who notoriously said reason was fit only to be “the slave of the passions,” was largely correct. E. O. Wilson, the ecologist who was branded a fascist for stressing the biological origins of human behavior, has been vindicated by the study of moral emotions. Even Glaucon, the cynic in Plato’s “Republic” who told Socrates that people would behave ethically only if they thought they were being watched, was “the guy who got it right.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/the-righteous-mind-by-jonathan-haidt.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Righteous_Mind
https://www.amazon.ca/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/0307455777
https://righteousmind.com/

‘The Righteous Mind,’ by Jonathan Haidt