Moral Politics
How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Third Edition
- Contents
- Review Quotes

Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction
1 The Mind and Politics
2 The Worldview Problem for American Politics
Part II: Moral Conceptual Systems
3 Experiential Morality
4 Keeping the Moral Books
5 Strict Father Morality
6 Nurturant Parent Morality
Part III: From Family-Based Morality to Politics
7 Why We Need a New Understanding of American Politics
8 The Nature of the Model
9 Moral Categories in Politics
Part IV: The Hard Issues
10 Social Programs and Taxes
11 Crime and the Death Penalty
12 Regulation and the Environment
13 The Culture Wars: From Affirmative Action to the Arts
14 Two Models of Christianity
15 Abortion
16 How Can You Love Your Country and Hate Your Government?
Part V: Summing Up
17 Varieties of Liberals and Conservatives
18 Pathologies, Stereotypes, and Distortions
19 Can There Be a Politics without Family Values?
Part VI: Who's Right? And How Can You Tell?
20 Nonideological Reasons for Being a Liberal
21 Raising Real Children
22 The Human Mind
23 Basic Humanity
Afterword, 2002
Afterword, 2016
References
Index
Cognitive Science: Language
Political Science: Political Behavior and Public Opinion
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