ABSTRACT

From the viewpoint of evolutionary psychology, human nature would be the result of evolution. Morality would be the result of a very complex process of evolution, from which reason and feelings also form part. The presentation of morality in evolutionary lines is appealing, interalia, because there is numerous anthropological evidence suggesting a connection between morality and environmental and cultural force. In fact, the idea of human intentionality or free-will is widespread. Emergentism can be interpreted in two forms, a weaker and a stronger. The dynamic interrelation between morality, reason, and sensorial capacities depicts moral knowledge as an epistemological tool allowing us to cope with certain aspects of our life. The 'structuration theory' proposes an alternative to the extremes represented by both methodological individualism and methodological structuralism. The regularity of people's behaviour, that shapes it into a lifestyle, is the result of the mental modelling about the world constructed to avoid anxiety.