Localizing the Moral Sense
Neuroscience and the Search for the Cerebral Seat of Morality, 1800-1930
(Sprache: Englisch)
This unique book presents an overview of believers and disbelievers in a cerebral seat of human morality. With depth and clarity, the book presents their positions and arguments, and offers an explanation for these attempts to localise our moral sense.
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This unique book presents an overview of believers and disbelievers in a cerebral seat of human morality. With depth and clarity, the book presents their positions and arguments, and offers an explanation for these attempts to localise our moral sense.
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Due to the current revolution in brain research the search for the "moral brain" became a serious endeavour. Nowadays, neural circuits that are indispensable for moral and social behaviour are discovered and the brains of psychopaths and criminals - the classical anti-heroes of morality - are scanned with curiosity, even enthusiasm.
How revolutionary this current research might be, the quest for a localisable ethical centre or moral organ is far from new. The moral brain was a recurrent theme in the works of neuroscientists during the 19th and 20th century. From the phrenology era to the encephalitis pandemic in the 1920s a wide range of European and American scientists (neurologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists and criminologists) speculated about and discussed the location of a moral sense in the human cortex. Encouraged by medical discoveries and concerned by terrifying phenomena like crime or "moral insanity" (psychopathy) even renowned and outstanding neurologists, including Moritz Benedikt, Paul Flechsig, Arthur Van Gehuchten, Oskar Vogt or Constantin von Monakow, had the nerve to make their speculations public. This book presents the first overview of believers and disbelievers in a cerebral seat of human morality, their positions and arguments and offers an explanation for these historical attempts to localise our moral sense, in spite of the massive disapproving commentary launched by colleagues.
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Introduction1. The new shapes of the old conscience2. Conscientiousness or the moral organ in phrenology3. The experimental neurology of the moral centre4. The clinical neurology of the moral centre5. The microscopy and endocrinology of the moral centre6. The localisation of morality in criminal anthropology7. Moral insanity as a disorder of the moral sense.8. Encephalitis lethargica: a brain disease of the moral sense?Conclusion: Localising the moral sense: believers and non-believersReferencesSubject indexName index
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jan Verplaetse
- 2014, 2009., 292 Seiten, Masse: 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- ISBN-10: 9400791267
- ISBN-13: 9789400791268
Sprache:
Englisch
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