Moral politics : how liberals and conservatives think / George Lakoff.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface to the third edition -- The mind and politics -- The worldview problem for American politics -- Experiential morality -- Keeping the moral books -- Strict father morality -- Nurturant parent morality -- Why we need a new understanding of American politics -- The nature of the model -- Moral categories in politics -- Social programs and taxes -- Crime and the death penalty -- Regulation and the environment -- The culture wars : from affirmative action to the arts -- Two models of Christianity -- Abortion -- How can you love your country and hate your government? -- Varieties of liberals and conservatives -- Pathologies, stereotypes, and distortions -- Can there be a politics without family values? -- Nonideological reasons for being a liberal -- Raising real children -- The human mind -- Basic humanity -- Epilogue: Problems for public discourse -- Afterword, 2002 -- Afterword, 2016.

"Lakoff reveals radically different but remarkably consistent conceptions of morality on both the left and right. Moral worldviews, like most deep ways of understanding the world, are unconscious—part of our “hard-wired” brain circuitry. When confronted with facts that don’t fit our moral worldview, our brains work automatically and unconsciously to ignore or reject these facts, and it takes extraordinary openness and awareness of this phenomenon to pay critical attention to the vast number of facts we are presented with each day. For this new edition, Lakoff has added a new preface and afterword, extending his observations to major ideological conflicts since the book's original publication, from the Affordable Care Act to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the recent financial crisis, and the effects of global warming."--Publisher's website.