The exact number of themes depends on whether you're a lumper or a splitter, but Haidt counts five — harm, fairness, community (or group loyalty), authority and purity — and suggests that they are the primary colors of our moral sense.
On this basis, ethical principles for organizations are outlined dealing with corporate responsibility in terms of harm, fairness, laws, discrimination, compensation, and contracts—as well as for employees in terms of performance, confidentiality, harm, honesty, and ethics.
In the West, we think morality is all about harm, rights, fairness and consent.
For example, Saletan writes: "In the West, we think morality is all about harm, rights, fairness and consent.
Liberals and Conservatives both care about harm and fairness – issues that focus on treating other individuals well.
In a large Web survey, Haidt found that liberals put a lopsided moral weight on harm and fairness while playing down group loyalty, authority and purity.
They're good at explaining how people make judgments about harm and fairness, but they still struggle to explain the feelings of awe, transcendence, patriotism, joy and self-sacrifice, which are not ancillary to most people's moral experiences, but central.
Many of the flabbergasting practices in faraway places become more intelligible when you recognize that the same moralizing impulse that Western elites channel toward violations of harm and fairness (our moral obsessions) is channeled elsewhere to violations in the other spheres.
27– 29 In the following, we present evidence that serotonin modulates human concerns for harm and fairness, and we examine the potential mechanisms.
24, 25 Concerns for harm and fairness play a central role in moral codes across cultures, 26 and there is some evidence that these building blocks of morality shape social behavior in primates.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that social cognitive and emotional processes concerning the representation of others' mental states and emotions (i.e., mentalizing and empathy) clearly play a role in shaping concerns for harm and fairness.
