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Due to novel evolutions in brain research, neuroscientists no longer fear for talking about 璽?畋he moral brain’ nowadays. Neural circuits that are indispensable for moral and social behaviour are discovered and the brains of psychopaths and criminals - the classical anti-heroes of morality - are scanned with enthusiasm. How revolutionary this research might be, the quest for a localizable ethical centre or moral organ is far from new. The moral brain was a recurrent theme in the works of neuroscientists during nineteenth and early twentieth century. From the phrenology era to the encephalitis epidemic in the 1920s a wide range of European and American scientists (neurologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists and criminologists) speculated about and discussed the location of a genuine moral sense that could be found in the human cortex. Encouraged by medical discoveries and distressed by fearful phenomena like crime or 璽?畋oral insanity’ even renowned neurologists such as Moritz Benedikt, Paul Flechsig, Arthur Van Gehuchten or Constantin von Monakow were bold enough to publish their speculations. This book presents the first overview of believers and disbelievers, their positions and arguments and offers an explanation for these historical attempts to localize human morality, in spite of the massive negative comments launched by colleagues.

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