1] The Neuroscience of Ethics constitutes a progress when applying empirical science in the investigation of the moral
phenomenon. 2] Emphasizing the importance of affects and feelings represents a compensation for the excessive importance
given to reason in the formation of moral judgments. 3] There are serious methodological difficulties by not specifying the
concepts of intuition, affections, duty and especially what is understood by ethics. 4] But scientific research apprehends man
as an “entity” in himself (present) and not as an “existence” (future), that is, being-in-the-world. 5] Instead of “having” a
moral, the human being “is” moral and as such is a project thrown towards its most authentic possibility that consists of
appropriating its being-for-death.
Keywords:
neuroscience of ethics, moral intuition, empirical science, guilt, affects, feelings
Figueroa, G. (2022). Neuroethics: the reign of neuroscience begins in the foundation of the ethics. Acta Bioethica, 28(2), pp. 183–195. Retrieved from https://actabioethica.uchile.cl/index.php/AB/article/view/68980
