抜き書き。
From the ancients to the 20th century, it was philosophers who speculated about how the mind and brain might work. Now it is neuroscientists who are telling us how we must behave. Three hundred years ago, David Hume argued that one could not derive an ought from an is, but now we are being told that our "oughts" - our moral feelings - are indeed "ises", genetically and developmentally incarnated in our brains.
(Steven Rose, "In search of the God neuron" (book review), in Guardian Weekly, 16.01.09)
