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Smart People Podcast

Jonathan Haidt

Smart People Podcast

Smart People Industries

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6736 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2012

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Haidt – morality, emotion and politics: “Morality binds people together into teams that seek victory, not truth, and it closes hearts and minds.” Taking the moral high ground is considered noble.  Being morally sound is an admirable trait.  But who determines if your moral stance is correct? Ultimately you do…don’t you?   I mean, as this week’s guest points... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.5

by smart people that is an awesome question this one goes down probably on one of my top five.

0:39.9

Hey, I like nutrition. I like to eat food. This is the coolest thing ever. We're going to do this

0:44.3

forever. I wish I paid more attention in that class. You know, I'm going to be honest. I don't

0:49.6

understand that. As a man, I don't get it. welcome to smart people podcast dot com what's up party people

0:58.5

welcome to smart people podcast i'm chris and i'm refusing to say that my name is john with that

1:04.1

yeah party people you don't want to be part of the party people party people party people this episode

1:08.6

has nothing to do with partying it's as far as you get from that.

1:12.1

Bipartisanship. Ooh. I like it. There you go. Let's talk about some other stuff first.

1:18.2

Fantasy football season is upon us. I actually want to get a fantasy football guest. I think we

1:22.6

do that like stat. Well, I mean, who's a fantasy football guest? Like Tim from the office pool that does really well every year?

1:29.9

All right. If you have won your fantasy pool,

1:32.0

five years in a row, hit us up. You're going to get a spot on the podcast. Also, some things to do.

1:39.5

We have numerous ways you need to incorporate yourself into our web of smartness. I'm going to go ahead and say

1:46.7

the two most prominent are follow us on Facebook and sign up for our newsletter. Actually,

1:52.8

just go to smart people podcast.com. Up or right hand corner, we're going to need you to double

1:59.0

opt in. So you just opt in. It's going to send you an email. Roach is laughing because we argued if it should be double

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