Biased Quote by Jonathan Haidt

“Schwitzgebel even scrounged up the missing-book lists from dozens of libraries and found that academic books on ethics, which are presumably borrowed mostly by…

— Jonathan Haidt

My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field…

— Jonathan Haidt

“Schwitzgebel even scrounged up the missing-book lists from dozens of libraries and found that academic books on ethics, which are presumably borrowed mostly by…

— Jonathan Haidt

I think that moral philosophy is useful for framing questions, but terrible at answering them. I think moral psychology is booming right now, and…

— Jonathan Haidt

I think moral philosophy is speculation on how we ought to live together done by people who have very little clue how people work.…

— Jonathan Haidt

Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own moral judgment…

— Sam Harris

To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.

— Michael Shermer

Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000 years ago,…

— David Plotz

God doesn't help. I think that's a knockdown argument. I think that it really shows that whatever moral knowledge we have and whatever moral…

— Rebecca Goldstein

That torture is wrong can never be the conclusion to any line of reasoning because it has to be a fundamental premise. Witnessing to…

— Giles Fraser

“The why of the mind's existence and the how of its profound capacity to reason - especially its penchant for moral reasoning - will…

— Dean Koontz

"Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral values not…

— James MacGregor Burns