# The Righteous Mind

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Jonathan Haidt]]
- Full Title: The Righteous Mind
- Category: #books

## Highlights
- Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it’s very difficult to empathize across a moral divide. ([Location 953](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0052FF7YM&location=953))
- Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises.… “Built-in” does not mean unmalleable; it means “organized in advance of experience.” ([Location 2256](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0052FF7YM&location=2256))
- Moral systems are interlocking sets of values, virtues, norms, practices, identities, institutions, technologies, and evolved psychological mechanisms that work together to suppress or regulate self-interest and make cooperative societies possible. ([Location 4504](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0052FF7YM&location=4504))
- More specifically, moral capital refers to the degree to which a community possesses interlocking sets of values, virtues, norms, practices, identities, institutions, and technologies that mesh well with evolved psychological mechanisms and thereby enable the community to suppress or regulate selfishness and make cooperation possible. ([Location 4881](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0052FF7YM&location=4881))