Diandra Maria Pânișoară
In order to determine if the moral instinct is to be believed and respects an objective conduct and not only subjective and/or genetic factors, most studies develop an analysis asking the question “Nature or nurture?” This approach examines the triggering element of an individual’s thinking, not just the conclusion of the final product, which in this case would be the complexity of many triggering processes behind an individual’s action. This question found an answer in the scientific environment that combines nature and nurture in creating man and his subsistence in relation to internal and external constituents. Thus, genetic research incorporates environmental research and environmental research incorporates genetic factors. The theory of nature, of the brain that makes decisions with pre- existing functions, that deals with intuition, the selection of information has been a marked interest for many psychologists, neurologists and philosophers. The context and the good practice of knowledge and its entire existence have, of course, evolved, but the questions from classical theories such as dualism and its opposite, materialism are creating an intricate contribution. Immanuel Kant had a well-established opinion in completely rejecting materialism. He believed that intuition locates both spatial and temporal factors and that it is guided by a unified consciousness. Let us take a relevant example from psychology that illustrates ambivalent thinking in relation to justice and the trust attributed to moral intuition. This example is that of Phineas P. Gage. Phineas was an American railroad foreman who suffered a terrible and unforeseeable accident, in which a large iron rod was driven into the left frontal lobe of his brain. Surprisingly, and very implausibly, he not only did not die instantly but escaped with his life without being incapacitated in a manner of gruesome relevance. The accident, however, perniciously caused wounds in Phineas’s personality that led to rather severe behavioral changes, easily noticeable to people who had known Phineas before the tragedy.
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