COOPERATION AND EMPATHY:
AN ARTICULATION IN FAVOR OF THE NATURAL FOUNDATIONS FOR MORALITY
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https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v10i5.45375Keywords:
Empathy, Cooperation, Ethology, Hume, EvolutionAbstract
The objective of this paper is to bring theoretical and empirical subsidies that can base a naturalistic approach to the moral phenomenon. Morality, in this article, will be understood as a necessary phenomenon for the maintenance of group life of social mammals of complex life. This hypothesis will be defended throughout this work, from the defense of a relationship between empathy and cooperation within the group of great primates, more specifically in the communities of Chimpanzés (Pan troglotydes versus). This research is anchored by the discoveries made by Hume, mainly in the discussions around his proposal to deal with the questions pertaining to the field of moral philosophy from the use of experimental methods, as well as by new advances in the biological and cognitive sciences that allow to search new resolutions to the questions that have been present for centuries in the speculative field of moral philosophy. The ethnological researches with primates provide indispensable subsidies for the support of the hypothesis that some emotions appear in response to certain socially considered facts of great value. In this way, I try to demonstrate that the indispensable elements for the emergence of a certain moral phenomenon are contained in the biological structure of social mammals of complex life. Certainly, the empirical and theoretical data brought by this research contribute significantly to support the argument for a theory that seeks to understand morality through evolutionary foundations.
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