Biology, Justice and Hume’s Guillotine

Biology and Neuroscience are addressing issues related to moral sentiments, but this does not mean that Philosophy has lost its importance in the debate. Paradoxically, the discovery that moral sentiments have evolutionary origins does not overcome the problem of “Hume’s Guillotine”. There are huma...

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Autores principales:	Hugo de Brito Machado Segundo, Raquel Cavalcanti Ramos Machado
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Publicado:	Rosenberg & Sellier 2017
Materias:	moral sentiments evolutionary origins Aesthetics BH1-301 Ethics BJ1-1725
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:9798ef0f17e94669907d2e1373891f572021-12-02T09:25:46ZBiology, Justice and Hume’s Guillotine10.13128/Phe_Mi-211222280-78532239-4028https://doaj.org/article/9798ef0f17e94669907d2e1373891f572017-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/7282https://doaj.org/toc/2280-7853https://doaj.org/toc/2239-4028 Biology and Neuroscience are addressing issues related to moral sentiments, but this does not mean that Philosophy has lost its importance in the debate. Paradoxically, the discovery that moral sentiments have evolutionary origins does not overcome the problem of “Hume’s Guillotine”. There are human characteristics which can be explained by natural selection and that are nonetheless culturally reproved. In order to choose or select which “natural” characteristics are to be promoted and which are to be discouraged, it is necessary to use a criterion that is not given by nature, although human capacities to discuss these criteria have been naturally shaped. Hugo de Brito Machado SegundoRaquel Cavalcanti Ramos MachadoRosenberg & Sellierarticlemoral sentimentsevolutionary originsAestheticsBH1-301EthicsBJ1-1725ENFRITPhenomenology and Mind, Iss 12 (2017)
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description	Biology and Neuroscience are addressing issues related to moral sentiments, but this does not mean that Philosophy has lost its importance in the debate. Paradoxically, the discovery that moral sentiments have evolutionary origins does not overcome the problem of “Hume’s Guillotine”. There are human characteristics which can be explained by natural selection and that are nonetheless culturally reproved. In order to choose or select which “natural” characteristics are to be promoted and which are to be discouraged, it is necessary to use a criterion that is not given by nature, although human capacities to discuss these criteria have been naturally shaped.
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Biology, Justice and Hume’s Guillotine

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