Trialectic the confluence of law, neuroscience, and morality
"Emerging neuroscientific insights are changing our understanding of what it means to be human. The resulting reconceptualization continues to impact law and the fit between law and morality. This book takes account of those developments and suggests that normative theory, particularly in its n...
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Chicago, London
The University of Chicago Press
2023
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Emerging neuroscientific insights are changing our understanding of what it means to be human. The resulting reconceptualization continues to impact law and the fit between law and morality. This book takes account of those developments and suggests that normative theory, particularly in its non-instrumental iterations, will be challenged, most profoundly. If we are, as the science suggests, nothing more than the coincidence of mechanical forces, then law and normative theory that depend on the immaterial and that would draw distinctions between the "mental" or "emotional" and the more manifestly physical are misguided, so misguided that they would actually undermine human thriving. Indeed, they already do. The ramifications of that conclusion are profound. Trialectic posits and investigates the impact of those ramifications on law"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | x, 300 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780226827506 978-0-226-82750-6 9780226827483 978-0-226-82748-3 |