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The Silmarillion

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Feb 10, 2018 09:58AM

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Buddhism for Dummies

by Jonathan Landaw

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

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“People don't adopt their ideologies at random, or by soaking up whatever ideas are around them. People whose genes gave them brains that get a special pleasure from novelty, variety, and diversity, while simultaneously being less sensitive to signs of threat, are predisposed (but not predestined) to become liberals.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

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“We do moral reasoning not to reconstruct the actual reasons why we ourselves came to a judgment; we reason to find the best possible reasons why somebody else ought to join us in our judgment”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

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“If you ask people to sing a song together, or to march in step, or just to tap out some beats together on a table, it makes them trust each other more and be more willing to help each other out, in part because it makes people feel more similar to each other.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

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“Durkheim frequently criticized his contemporaries, such as Freud, who tried to explain morality and religion using only the psychology of individuals and their pairwise relationships. (God is just a father figure, said Freud.) Durkheim argued, in contrast, that Homo sapiens was really Homo duplex, a creature who exists at two levels: as an individual and as part of the larger society.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

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“The social psychologist Tom Gilovich studies the cognitive mechanisms of strange beliefs. His simple formulation is that when we want to believe something, we ask ourselves, “Can I believe it?”28 Then (as Kuhn and Perkins found), we search for supporting evidence, and if we find even a single piece of pseudo-evidence, we can stop thinking. We now have permission to believe. We have a justification, in case anyone asks. In contrast, when we don’t want to believe something, we ask ourselves, “Must I believe it?” Then we search for contrary evidence, and if we find a single reason to doubt the claim, we can dismiss it.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

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