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I must admit to smirking at the unintended irony created by the title of the article, and the publication it appears in. That said, Jonathan Haidt's book The R

I must admit to smirking at the unintended irony created by the title of the article, and the publication it appears in. That said, Jonathan Haidt's book The Righteous Mind does outline a very similar thing. That our 'reasoning' is almost always a post-hoc attempt to explain how we already feel. And Haidt, while claiming neutrality is very definitely on the right end of the spectrum.

js8 8y ago
> And Haidt, while claiming neutrality is very definitely on the right end of the spectrum. Is he? I have always felt like he is at the centre, if not slightly to the left, where most social psychologists are. (BTW, I am on the left myself.)
- casefields 8y ago
  He's always considered himself a left of center, moderate liberal until he wrote The Rightous Mind. He doesn't necessarily identify with the right but he disavows some of his older liberal beliefs. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/magazine/a-liberal-learns-to-compete.html https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/magazine/a-liberal-learns...
emodendroket 8y ago
> That said, Jonathan Haidt's book The Righteous Mind does outline a very similar thing. That our 'reasoning' is almost always a post-hoc attempt to explain how we already feel. I think Hume beat him to this position by a bit.
- ycombinete 8y ago
  And St. Augustine beat Hume to his position by more than a century :) In The Righteous Mind Haidt actually quotes Hume's "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." Given the above, I'm still happy with Haidt as a reference here, as he references Hume, and also has a decade or two of research to back up his claims.