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Moral Politics - How Liberals and Conservatives Think (Paperback, 3rd edition)
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Moral Politics - How Liberals and Conservatives Think (Paperback, 3rd edition)
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When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it
redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the
lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's
classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and
conservatives have come to hold even more vigorously opposed views
of the world, with the underlying assumptions of their respective
worldviews at the level of basic morality. Even more so than when
Lakoff wrote, liberals and conservatives simply have very
different, deeply held beliefs about what is right and wrong.
Lakoff reveals radically different but remarkably consistent
conceptions of morality on both the left and right. Moral
worldviews, like most deep ways of understanding the world, are
unconscious part of our "hard-wired" brain circuitry. When
confronted with facts that don't fit our moral worldview, our
brains work automatically and unconsciously to ignore or reject
these facts, and it takes extraordinary openness and awareness of
this phenomenon to pay critical attention to the vast number of
facts we are presented with each day. For this new edition, Lakoff
has added a new preface and afterword, extending his observations
to major ideological conflicts since the book's original
publication, from the Affordable Care Act to the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan, the recent financial crisis, and the effects of global
warming. One might have hoped such massive changes would bring
people together, but the reverse has actually happened; the divide
between liberals and conservatives has become stronger and more
virulent. To have any hope of bringing mutual respect to the
current social and political divide, we need to clearly understand
the problem and make it part of our contemporary public discourse.
Moral Politics offers a much-needed wake-up call to both the left
and the right.
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