El asco entre naturaleza y cultura

Abstract

Compared with other emotions, disgust has not been overly treated, or it has spent many pages and so much attention from specialists in it. That’s why the disgust or repugnance is a privileged object of study for neuroethics. In the following article I will try to show how disgusting is not just a physiological reaction, but biological and cultural evolution has made it a highly complex emotion with a large cognitive content. We’ll see what role has the rhetorical device to disgust in various processes of dehumanization and cruelty throughout history. Finally, we examine how empathy in moral agency and discuss what relationship exist between psychological mechanism an disgust.