Neurobiology of Human Values

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Changeux, Jean-Pierre (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Damasio, Antonio R. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Singer, Wolf (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Christen, Yves (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Σειρά: Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences,
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Neurology.; Medicine & Public Health.

Man has been pondering for centuries over the basis of his own ethical and aesthetic values. Until recent times, such issues were primarily fed by the thinking of philosophers, moralists and theologists, or by the findings of historians or sociologists relating to universality or variations in these...

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