Difference between revisions of "Paper: Metaphor, Morality, and Politics, Or, Why Conservatives Have Left Liberals In the Dust ,George Lakoff, 1995"

Revision as of 04:17, 15 August 2012

Original paper^[1].

Lakoff set several moral metaphors used liberals and conservatives.

The most important is strength metaphor:

Good
- Being good is being upright
- Morality is strength (Conservatives tel you to stand up and fight. It correlate with the FFFF for fighting against danger to survive. Tal Yaron 13:12, 15 August 2012 (IDT))
  - Through sufficient self-discipline to meet one's responsibilities and face existing hardships.
    - punishment can be good for you, since going through hardships builds moral strength.
  - Actively through self-denial and further self-discipline.
Bad
- Being bad is being low
- Doing Evil is falling
- Evil is a force (Conservatives tend to see evil as something done by somebody, and this relate to the FFFF mode of somthing that try to harm us. Tal Yaron 13:10, 15 August 2012 (IDT))

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 **Morality is strength (Conservatives tel you to stand up and fight. It correlate with the [[FFFF]] for fighting against danger to survive. [[User:WinSysop|Tal Yaron]] 13:12, 15 August 2012 (IDT))
 ***Through sufficient self-discipline to meet one's responsibilities and face existing hardships.
+****punishment can be good for you, since going through hardships builds moral strength.
 ***Actively through self-denial and further self-discipline.
 *Bad