The Righteous Mind

The Righteous Mind Audiobook

Whether a person is a liberal or a conservative, he is on the right side according to the author. The author has taken a very important topic for discussion and he has been able to describe everything appropriately with proper examples. Not many people select such topics because they are controversial and such things can face criticism most of the time. Jonathan Haidt is a professional psychologist and he thinks that he knows about human behavior better than other writers of the time.

Perhaps Haidt is right because he has come up with a proper reason to write this book and he has defended his point of view as well. First of all, the author starts with politics and then he expands his idea to other sections of life like religion.

Different people form groups because of differences of opinion and they want to prove that their opinion is correct in comparison to the thinking and ideas of the rival group. Such things have existed in human culture since the beginning of time and history is full of such issues. According to the author, the reality is different, actually, we don’t form groups because of differences of opinion rather we like separating ourselves into different groups.

It is our groupish nature that forces us to join a certain group which provides us satisfaction. This is not the first time that the author has come up with something new, he did this in The Happiness Hypothesis too. Also, The Coddling of the American Mind provided new thoughts to the people that they never had in their minds before. This is a book that you must listen if you want to know the purpose of different political and religious parties.