The first truth is the foundational idea of this book: The mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict.
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The second truth in this part of the story is that we are all, by nature, hypocrites, and this is why it is so hard for us to follow the Golden Rule faithfully.
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by this mind of mine used to
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limbic system (from Latin limhus, "border" or "margin") because they wrap around the rest of the brain, forming a border.
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least do what we can to understand why we are so easily divided into hostile groups, each one certain of its righteousness.
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I could have titled this book The Moral Mind to convey the sense that the human mind is designed to “do” morality
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But I chose the title The Righteous Mind to convey the sense that human nature is not just intrinsically moral, it’s also intrinsically moralistic, critical, and judgmental.
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Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.7 Moral intuitions arise automatically and almost instantaneously, long before moral reasoning has a chance to get started,
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those first intuitions tend to drive our later reasoning.
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II is about the second principle of moral psychology, which is that there’s more to morality than harm and fairness.