# Have you read the book \_The Righteous Mind\_? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [February 20, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-read-the-book-the-righteous-mind/1014550 "2025-02-20T01:00:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-read-the-book-the-righteous-mind/1014550/2 "2025-02-20T01:48:52Z")
> [@Vlad\_Igor](#): > > Have you heard of or read this book? Yes. In the “Your Top Ten Books of 2021” thread, I said that it was “My favorite non-fiction of the year. Full of insights and food for thought about how conservatives and liberals see the world, and what their/our moral feelings are based on.” It has been mentioned and discussed in other threads before, such as this one: > [@Is there a place for "Sanctity" in a modern society?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-place-for-sanctity-in-a-modern-society/991028): > > arrow_forward Previous conversation Inspired by the discussion above in another thread, here is a thread to discuss the question: Is there a place for sanctity in a modern society? The TL,DR version of the above discussion, to get you caught up: Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) claims that there are a number of pillars that we all build our sense of morality around. Different cultures and groups that have different senses of morality prioritize different pillars (or avoid some entirely), but these pillars ar… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-read-the-book-the-righteous-mind/1014550)._