Abstract:
This introductory theoretical framework describes the existing literature on the
approaches that moral psychology has followed in recent years. Specifically, the
advantages and disadvantages of constructing this discipline will be exposed using
theories and methodologies from other areas such as: neuroscience, evolutionary
psychology and microeconomics, which have visions that allow us to understand
how individuals respond to their environment and allow us to build models around
how and why moral intuitions arise. We will focus on the evolutionary vision that
allows us to understand morality as rules that solve certain ancestral problems that
are believed to be relevant to our ancestors. In this context, intuitions have an
important role in cooperation and consequently in the reproductive success of
humans, for this reason we will change the paradigm that exists in the literature on
reason vs. intuition. In which intuitions are thought of irrational behavior due to their
close link to emotions. We demonstrate that intuitions are rational and explore their
functionality from an evolutionary perspective evoking the moral emotion of jealousy.
