Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter C
2. Contents v
3. Translator’s Note vii
4. Prelude ix
5. 1. A Necessary Encounter
6. Knowledge and Wisdom 3
7. Knowledge of the Brain and Self-Knowledge 10
8. The Biological and the Normative 26
9. 2. Body and Mind: In Search of a Common Discourse
10. The Cartesian Ambiguity 33
11. The Contribution of the Neurosciences 41
12. Toward a Third Kind of Discourse? 63
13. 3. The Neuronal Model and the Test of Experience
14. The Simple and the Complex: Questions of Method 70
15. The Human Brain: Complexity, Hierarchy, Spontaneity 75
16. Mental Objects: Chimera or Link? 93
17. Is a Neuronal Theory of Knowledge Possible? 110
18. Understanding Better by Explaining More 125
19. 4. Consciousness of Oneself and of Others
20. Conscious Space 134
21. The Question of Memory 138
22. Comprehension of Oneself and of Others 154
23. Mind or Matter? 169
24. 5. The Origins of Morality
25. Darwinian Evolution and Moral Norms 179
26. Darwinian Evolution and Moral Norms 195
27. From Biological History to Cultural History: Valuing the Individual 202
28. 6. Desire and Norms
29. Natural Dispositions to Ethical Systems 212
30. Natural Dispositions to Ethical Systems 222
31. Passage to the Norm 239
32. 7. Ethical Universality and Cultural Conflict
33. The Natural Foundations of an Ethics of Debate 257
34. Religion and Violence 259
35. Paths of Tolerance 272
36. The Scandal of Evil 279
37. Toward an Ethics of Deliberation: The Example of Advisory Committees on Bioethics 298
38. Art as Peacemaker 303
39. Fugue 311
40. Notes 313
41. Index 327