The book “Why Are You Always Right?”
A Hebrew translation of the book “Why Are You Always Right?” by Jonathan Haidt was recently published. Have you read the book and/or do you have any insights about it?
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See here an article in Haaretz https://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/2023-05-10/ty-article-review/.premium/00000187-fbf2-d78f-a5d7-fbf3a5ab0000
And here to some extent https://mida.org.il/2023/04/07/%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%AA-%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8-%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%94-%D7%90%D7%AA%D7%9D-%D7%AA%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%93-%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%93%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%9D/
According to the book, the source of morality is in emotion and not in reason, and according to Rabbi Leib Mintzberg, in the sense of the commandments of the Bible https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%99%D7%91_%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%A6%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%92#%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%98%D7%AA%D7%95
Yossi, in general, in Haidt's opinion, there is no morality (although he ignores this in an impressive stunt), but impulses. I was more interested in the rabbi's opinion on Mr. Haidt's analysis of the "moral receptors" (which of them really deserve to be called morality in the eyes of someone who believes that not every impulse is morality) and their correspondence to certain political views. But thank you for the reference.
I did not understand that in his opinion there is no morality at all, but on the contrary, the reasoning for morality is because that is how I feel, and therefore I will behave in a moral and noble manner, although in truth it is all nonsense and there is nothing real in it. But that is only on the philosophical level. Not on the level of the world of phenomena.
And so was the opinion of Rabbi Leib Mintzberg, for example, in the matter of adultery he strongly disagrees with the Rishonim there, like the Ramban, who claims that it is a decree of Scripture and a law without reason, but certainly every noble and exalted person is supposed to feel disgusted by it, that is the reason to read, and likewise in the commandment of theft he did not agree with the Ramban, saying that the reason is because of the destruction of the world, but because of the inferiority of the human soul who feels in his conscience that what belongs to another should not be touched.
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