[Neuroethics: Ethical Endowments of Human Brain].

نویسنده

  • Natalia López Moratalla
چکیده

The neurobiological processes underlying moral judgement have been the focus of Neuroethics. Neurosciences demonstrate which cerebral areas are active and inactive whilst people decide how to act when facing a moral dilemma; in this way we know the correlation between determined cerebral areas and our human acts. We can explain how the ″ethical endowments″ of each person, common to all human beings, is ″embedded″ in the dynamic of cerebral flows. Of central interest is whether emotions play a causal role in moral judgement, and, in parallel, how emotion related areas of the brain contribute to moral judgement. The outcome of man's natural inclinations is on one hand linked to instinctive systems of animal survival and to basic emotions, and on the other, to the life of each individual human uninhibited by automatism of the biological laws, because he is governed by the laws of freedom. The capacity to formulate an ethical judgement is an innate asset of the human mind.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Cuadernos de bioetica : revista oficial de la Asociacion Espanola de Bioetica y Etica Medica

دوره 26 88  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015