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FYI:
Helen Dale is a very bright woman, a lawyer, classicist, and author.
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Jon Haidt
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Jonathan Haidt is a prominent social psychologist and has emphasized the idea that most people rely on intuition rather than reasoning when making moral judgments. This concept is a central theme in his book “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion”, published in 2012.

In the book, he uses the metaphor of the rider and the elephant to illustrate this idea. The “elephant” represents the intuitive processes, which are automatic and powerful, while the “rider” represents the conscious reasoning, which is more deliberate but often just serves to justify the intuition, or the direction in which the “elephant” is already moving. (Note, that this is a variation on Kahneman’s “thinking fast and slow”. Both haidt and Kahneman are interpreting the work of others (whose names I don’t recall at the moment).

In this book Haidt extensively discusses the idea that people often use reasoning post-hoc to justify their intuitive judgments, rather than using reasoning as a basis for making judgments.