The author of the book "The Heart of Justice" is Jonathan Haidt, a well-known American social psychologist. He was once named "one of the world's top thinkers" by Outlook magazine and is also a TED The speaker also has a masterpiece "The Elephant and the Rider", which talks about psychology. Haidt's theory is based on the assumption that human beings' perceptual thinking is like an elephant, rational thinking is like a rider, and the rider He can only serve the elephant and warn the elephant, but he cannot decide where the elephant will eventually go. Our rationality also serves our sensibility.
So human beings are far less rational than they think. Even when making moral judgments, they rely on the perceptual structure of the mind. People living in different social environments have different perceptual structures. People also have their own preferences when making moral judgments.
Haight mentioned three principles of morality in his book. The first principle is a somewhat counter-intuitive point of view: people are always accustomed to making rational judgments first, and then using reason to make excuses for their actions. The second principle is that moral emotions have six dimensions. In our daily lives, all moral judgments can basically find correspondences in these six dimensions. The third principle of morality, morality is cohesive but also blind. It has cohesive power and allows humans to better build society, but it is also blind and can cause us to diverge when making moral judgments.
First of all, we say that when we make moral judgments, we always put emotion first and reason second. Each of us has a different moral emotional makeup that is triggered by different situations. Moral emotions determine how we respond to moral situations, and reasoning follows responses to rationalize our judgments. A normal brain determines that we cannot be absolutely rational, and absolute rationality may not be a good thing. It will increase the difficulty and reduce the efficiency of our decision-making.
The solution is nothing more than six points:
1. Don’t always stand in the position of an observer and always think that you have the advantage of three views.
2. Discuss the matter as it is, and avoid discussing each other's matters and affecting the three views.
3. Don’t reason with people or give them advice, but tell stories.
4. Accept the different views and find room for arbitrage. Make yourself complicated and force yourself to learn routines. Force point to target.
"Gentlemen are harmonious but not harmonious; villains are harmonious but not harmonious." The ancients realized this problem very early, but we today always forget the teachings of our ancestors.
Everyone thinks that they are right and that the three views are correct. However, they do not know that the so-called three views are just shaped by different growth environments, different educations, different experiences and the influence of innate factors. There will never be anyone who is exactly the same as you, and everyone will always have different opinions on all issues.
It is because of each other’s differences that people enrich the whole world. They appreciate each other and learn from each other, which promotes mutual growth and allows different people to give full play to their strengths and strengths, and the world becomes a better place.
We can only keep an extremely open mind, take the initiative to understand information that we are unfamiliar with or even feel resistant to, and constantly revise our understanding of the world. In this era, we can no longer be limited to ourselves. In a small world, you can better understand others and collaborate.