Posted: May 26th, 2017

Haidt says, “… if moral instruction imparts only explicit knowledge …, it will have no effect …. Moral education must also impart tacit knowledge.

Haidt says, “… if moral instruction imparts only explicit knowledge …, it will have no effect …. Moral education must also impart tacit knowledge.” What does he mean by “tacit knowledge”? Is this a kind of habit that could develop without awareness through rewards and punishments, a unconscious feature of the id, the innate potential that the humanists suggest lies within us all, conformity to a norm that lies outside conscious awareness, or …?