Maybe…It’s quite hard to say, to be honest. Again, nothing of the sort was discusses in a book – much to my surprise and disappointment. I would have also loved to read about the morality aspect applied to any important topic such as wars, abortion, veganism, pornography, freedom of expression, money and capitalism and so much more! I love thinking about the different aspects that we need to consider when trying to determine if something is moral or not and why. I already mentioned that I expected to read about how we should decide what is moral, how to become more moral and how to have better conversations about important and challenging topics. Then there are the things I would have loved to read about, but I couldn’t because these where nowhere to be found. Sometimes the book seems like an autobiography or like a textbook and it discusses some topics more than I would like. There are parts in the book that seem interesting, but unnecessary (to me) or unnecessarily long. There is a lot that was included in the book that I would leave out or compress and a lot that was not included in the book even though it should have been
It’s useful to think that different groups or different people based their morality on different foundations, but ultimately we need to ask: how are we supposed to choose what foundations to value more than others? Or how are we supposed to come up with moral rules and social norms for our society?Ĥ. But isn’t this what a book on morality should do? And if you don’t buy into Haidt’s theory of Moral Foundations then you aren’t left with much at the end of the book. I would be tempted to say that morality is a very complex topic and it is hard to find ways to decide what is moral or not and to work out our different views. His last chapter was titled “Can’t We All Disagree More Constructively?” and yet he only shared some basic advice in 1-2 pages. I actually expected this book to share more about how to become more moral (as individuals and a society), how to decide what is moral or not and how to connect and communicate better with those that have different views and different moralities. This was honestly very disappointing to me.
He gives little to no advice on how to decide what is moral/immoral, how to make moral progress and how to have better conversations on the topics that divide us
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