Summary Of The Righteous Mind By Jonathan Haidt
Critical Analysis
The audience of my paper is incoming college freshmen who are about to read the summer reading assignment of The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt. The purpose is to persuade anybody who thinks it is not necessary to read the assignment to actually read the book.
Alyssa Macdonald
ENG 101-27
Homework 1
Final Draft
17 September 2014
Keep an Open Mind How does one determine what is right or wrong? In Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Righteous Mind, he explores why people behave and think the way they do. The opening chapter, he attempts to explain where human morality comes from. This chapter was extremely interesting and important to the overall theme of the book. First-year college students who read the book should definitely keep this chapter in mind because it clearly explains why people have their differences. A college campus can be home to many people with many different backgrounds and beliefs. It is …show more content…
A crucial argument in morality is nurture versus nature. It is important to understand both these concepts. Morality from nurture means that children learn what is right or wrong based on what their parents have raised them to believe. Morality from nature means that children just know what is right or wrong by doing. In the 1980’s, a man named Jean Piaget constructed experiments to understand how the human mind evolves by teaching children about liquid volume. “The understanding of the conservation of water wasn’t innate, and it wasn’t learned from adults. Kids figure it out for themselves, but only when their minds are ready and they are given the right kinds of experiences” (Haidt 6). This explains that children learn the differences between right and wrong by themselves, but it depends on their own experiences. It basically explains that morality is nature and nurture. Kids know, but their guardians and friends give them the experiences to learn what is right and
The audience of my paper is incoming college freshmen who are about to read the summer reading assignment of The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt. The purpose is to persuade anybody who thinks it is not necessary to read the assignment to actually read the book.
Alyssa Macdonald
ENG 101-27
Homework 1
Final Draft
17 September 2014
Keep an Open Mind How does one determine what is right or wrong? In Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Righteous Mind, he explores why people behave and think the way they do. The opening chapter, he attempts to explain where human morality comes from. This chapter was extremely interesting and important to the overall theme of the book. First-year college students who read the book should definitely keep this chapter in mind because it clearly explains why people have their differences. A college campus can be home to many people with many different backgrounds and beliefs. It is …show more content…
A crucial argument in morality is nurture versus nature. It is important to understand both these concepts. Morality from nurture means that children learn what is right or wrong based on what their parents have raised them to believe. Morality from nature means that children just know what is right or wrong by doing. In the 1980’s, a man named Jean Piaget constructed experiments to understand how the human mind evolves by teaching children about liquid volume. “The understanding of the conservation of water wasn’t innate, and it wasn’t learned from adults. Kids figure it out for themselves, but only when their minds are ready and they are given the right kinds of experiences” (Haidt 6). This explains that children learn the differences between right and wrong by themselves, but it depends on their own experiences. It basically explains that morality is nature and nurture. Kids know, but their guardians and friends give them the experiences to learn what is right and