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- Full Title:: Outdated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- URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/outdated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, 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)