## Metadata - Author: [[Benn Stancil]] - Full Title:: Outdated - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/outdated - Read date:: [[2025-08-23]] ## Highlights > Jonathan Haidt, Fredrik Björklund, and Scott Murphy—wanted to test the theory that moral reasoning is often constructed as a post hoc rationalization of what we *feel* should be right or wrong. Their hypothesis, which was [famously proposed by David Hume](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume-moral/#inmo), was that “reason is the press-secretary of the intuitions, and can pretend to no other office than that of ex-post facto spin doctor.” We have gut reactions, and then a reasoning process justifies them. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k39tk730hmsbk1awv0cd5xph))