Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think by George Lakoff

Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think George Lakoff ebook
ISBN: 0226467716, 9780226467719
Format: djvu
Page: 476
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press

Second, just because because neither political liberalism nor political conservatism is the gospel, it does not follow there there is a moral equivalency between the two. In 2004, he wrote “Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate,” “Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think” and “Whose Freedom?” in 1996, and “The Political Mind” in 1998. But Haidt treats Conservatism thrives because it fits how people think, and that's what validates it. In Metaphors We Live By, Lakoff argues that metaphor is so much more than that. €�The basic idea is there are The final experiment in the paper showed polarization between liberals and conservatives when exposed to messages focused on the harm and destruction humans are causing to the environment, and how important it is for people to protect it. €�I started to think about that, and something that's been popular in the literature lately, moral psychology, the theory of different foundations of morality,” developed by Jon Haidt. This is Haidt's startling message to the left: When it comes to morality, conservatives are more broad-minded than liberals. People often think of metaphor as nothing more than a rhetorical device, a tool that writers use to add flavor to their writing. More than a decade and a half after its publishing, Lakoff's theory as presented in Moral Politics remains the most comprehensive model of the moral systems supporting liberalism and conservatism. The National Center for Public Policy Research describes itself as a "conservative, free-market, non-profit think-tank" created in 1982 and supported by "voluntary gifts from over 100,000 individual recent supporters" and two percent . Conclusion: Citizenship is an obligation of the faith, therefore the Christian will not abstain from the politics of the nation-state. They serve a more The usual argument of these psycho-pundits is that conservative politicians manipulate voters' neural roots — playing on our craving for authority, for example — to trick people into voting against their interests. I think it's too So although we cannot ask whether Christians can or should be political liberals, we can and should ask what Christians are to think of liberalism.