Moral Politics (book)
1996 book by George Lakoff / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think is a 1996 book by cognitive linguist George Lakoff. It argues that conservatives and liberals hold two different conceptual models of morality. Conservatives have a strict father model in which people are made good through self-discipline and hard work, everyone is taken care of by taking care of themselves. Liberals have a nurturant parent model in which everyone is taken care of by helping each other.
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Author | George Lakoff |
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Subject | Political ethics |
Published | 1996 |
Pages | 413 |
ISBN | 978-0-226-46805-1 |
OCLC | 33665953 |
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The first edition of the book was published with the subtitle What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don't.