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Luca Luchesini

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Description:This essay connects the dots between “The Righteous Mind”, the recent success of Jonathan Haidt about the evolutionary foundations of morality and mimetic theory developed by Rene Girard around the key concepts of imitative desire and scapegoating. The two authors come from very different backgrounds and yet they share a deep interest in researching the process that created mankind. A Catholic literary theorist turned anthropologist, Rene Girard (born 1924) published in 1973 “Violence and the Sacred” where he explained the role of imitative desire and unanimous violence against isolated victims in the birth of primitive religions, myths and rituals. On the other hand, Jonathan Haidt, a Jewish liberal atheist somehow traveled in the opposite direction: starting from a liberal, rational and evolutionary cultural background he discovered all along his research in developmental psychology the multi-faceted nature of human morals, and he eventually rehabilitated religion as a distinctive feature of mankind, openly disagreeing with the “New atheist” view that sees religion as a bug in the evolution process of the human species. For Haidt religion is no bug, indeed it plays a crucial role in keeping groups together albeit he concedes to his fellow atheists that there is no such thing as transcendence but only a psychological “self-transcendence”. Girard and Haidt also share a clear and rigorous style in the exposition of their views and they are both aware that their theories can have a revolutionary impact. The first two chapters provide a brief overview of Haidt thinking about the evolution and nature of morality and Girard theory of the origin of religion and culture. In the third and fourth chapters we describe the common ground as well as the challenges that the two theories pose to each other. In the fifth chapter we list some of the implication of the two theories on current political and moral thinking, as both theories provide very valuable insight into human origins and behavior. With a bit of humorous hype, the works of Haidt and Girard might prove in humanities the equivalent of general relativity and quantum theory in the physical realm, that is two explanations not fully compatible yet invaluable in understanding a large part of our world.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Righteously Mimetic Mind: Morality, Politics and Human Development between J.Haidt and R.Girard. To get started finding The Righteously Mimetic Mind: Morality, Politics and Human Development between J.Haidt and R.Girard, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This essay connects the dots between “The Righteous Mind”, the recent success of Jonathan Haidt about the evolutionary foundations of morality and mimetic theory developed by Rene Girard around the key concepts of imitative desire and scapegoating. The two authors come from very different backgrounds and yet they share a deep interest in researching the process that created mankind. A Catholic literary theorist turned anthropologist, Rene Girard (born 1924) published in 1973 “Violence and the Sacred” where he explained the role of imitative desire and unanimous violence against isolated victims in the birth of primitive religions, myths and rituals. On the other hand, Jonathan Haidt, a Jewish liberal atheist somehow traveled in the opposite direction: starting from a liberal, rational and evolutionary cultural background he discovered all along his research in developmental psychology the multi-faceted nature of human morals, and he eventually rehabilitated religion as a distinctive feature of mankind, openly disagreeing with the “New atheist” view that sees religion as a bug in the evolution process of the human species. For Haidt religion is no bug, indeed it plays a crucial role in keeping groups together albeit he concedes to his fellow atheists that there is no such thing as transcendence but only a psychological “self-transcendence”. Girard and Haidt also share a clear and rigorous style in the exposition of their views and they are both aware that their theories can have a revolutionary impact. The first two chapters provide a brief overview of Haidt thinking about the evolution and nature of morality and Girard theory of the origin of religion and culture. In the third and fourth chapters we describe the common ground as well as the challenges that the two theories pose to each other. In the fifth chapter we list some of the implication of the two theories on current political and moral thinking, as both theories provide very valuable insight into human origins and behavior. With a bit of humorous hype, the works of Haidt and Girard might prove in humanities the equivalent of general relativity and quantum theory in the physical realm, that is two explanations not fully compatible yet invaluable in understanding a large part of our world.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Righteously Mimetic Mind: Morality, Politics and Human Development between J.Haidt and R.Girard. To get started finding The Righteously Mimetic Mind: Morality, Politics and Human Development between J.Haidt and R.Girard, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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