Neuroethics: the brain’s foundations for politically relevant ethics?
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https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2010.i42.687Keywords:
Neuroethics, foundations of ethics, universal ethics, justice, contractualism, neurosciences, politics, bioethicsAbstract
At the beginning of the XXI century neuroethics was born as a part of bioethics and also as a new kind of knowledge, capable of discovering the neural basis of the human behaviour. From that basis some neuroscientists intend to outline the foundations for a universal ethics. The article 1) analyses critically the process of foundation of such universal ethics, 2) takes into account the human cooperation paradox in order to complete the process, 3) tries to evaluate the contributions of neuroethics to ethics and its suitability to outline the foundations of a universal ethics.
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