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Cultivating Compassion Session 5: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics & Religion

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Thu, May 25, 2023 | 7:00 PM Central

The “others”, whoever they may be, are not evil, but often serving a different set of priorities. Learning how to describe strategies in ways that speak to others’ priorities helps us move forward together.

Even when we work to separate our observations from judgements we make about them, the judgements remain. We still apply a moral framework, some way of prioritizing what’s important to us. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt invites us to examine the moral frameworks we use to tell right from wrong, As we explore these frameworks, we’ll be applying what we’ve learned about thinking, empathizing, and feeling to regard one another in a new way, opening ourselves to the humanity of the people we “other.”

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