Psychology

Neuroscience is a field that looks at brain at a synaptic and cellular level. In addition it looks at the chemicals that cause cells to react in varying ways. On the other hand altruism is the tendency to have unselfish concern for the good of others. From perspective of science altruism in its embodied form is a domain of life accessible to the principles of inquiry and tools of intervention that characterize our particular human relationship with the natural order. The work of Thomas Insel suggests that we can gain a measure of explanation and description of some biological dimensions of love. With a deeper understanding of the genetic, biochemical, and development of factors that underlie human disorders of interpersonal relationship such as autism or sociopathic personality, we may then be able to develop medical therapies (Post, 2002).
   
In their work, Antonio and Hanna Damasio give us a deeper appreciation for how the capacities for social relations and social reasoning involve an intricate integration of diverse dimensions of neurological functioning there is no single love module in the brain. Nevertheless, Hann Damasios studies of student with neural deficits opens our understanding to a more sympathetic interpretation of the morals meaning of certain medical conditions. What seems like willful indigence or moral obstinacy may be genuine neurological malfunction. Such a perspective, however, becomes more difficult in the case of sociopathy, in which callous lack of conscience and strong association with crime raises difficult questions about normal human being variations and their implications for moral and legal responsibility. The findings that the same neurological damage incurred at different stages of development result in dramatically different levels of social functioning suggest that experience may play a crucial role not just in attainment of moral balance and social skills but also in development of neurological dynamics that undergird them(Post, 2002).