Warianty tytułu
The periodic table of foundational moral elements
Języki publikacji
Abstrakty
The goal of the paper is to show how the approach to the investigation of moral phenomena has changed in the past decades. First, I inquire into the history of science of the 19th century (medicine, chemistry) and I show a parallel with the development of contemporary ethics. Next, I suggest how evolutionary biolog y in collaboration with neuroscience has used hierarchical reductionism to arrive at the foundational elements and mechanisms of morality. In an analog y with the periodic table of chemical elements, I show the possibility of identifying the foundational elements of morality. I argue that naturalistic approach of hierarchical reductionism will gradually enable a more exact explication of moral phenomena. Finally, I present two illustrations of naturalistic reductionism that enable ethics to reach empirically verifi able explanations of some moral phenomena in an unprecedented extent
Czasopismo
Rocznik
Numer
Strony
31-53
Opis fizyczny
Daty
wydano
2013
Twórcy
autor
- Studia paedagogica Ústav pedagogických věd Filozofická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity Arna Nováka 1 602 00 Czech republic
Bibliografia
Typ dokumentu
Bibliografia
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Identyfikator YADDA
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