RE: Euthyphros dilemma...
January 2, 2014 at 11:05 am
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2014 at 11:13 am by houseofcantor.)
(January 2, 2014 at 10:46 am)ChadWooters Wrote: @ house...and the moral import of chemistry, Mr. Heisenberg.
Chemicals in the brain make us feel good when cooperating.
Quote:Here, we show that the neurotransmitter serotonin directly alters both moral judgment and behavior through increasing subjects’ aversion to personally harming others. We enhanced serotonin in healthy volunteers with citalopram (a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) and contrasted its effects with both a pharmacological control treatment and a placebo on tests of moral judgment and behavior. We measured the drugs' effects on moral judgment in a set of moral 'dilemmas' pitting utilitarian outcomes (e.g., saving five lives) against highly aversive harmful actions (e.g., killing an innocent person). Enhancing serotonin made subjects more likely to judge harmful actions as forbidden, but only in cases where harms were emotionally salient.
http://www.pnas.org/content/107/40/17433
Just one of many studies which indicate morality derives from chemistry.