Social Intuitionalism (the Psychology of Moral Reasoning from the Viewpoint of Jonathan Heed)

Moral reasoning has been playing a pivotal role in ethics. Due to this, all ethical views had the same theme. After philosophy was added to the science of ethics, the psychology of ethics promoted this branch of knowledge. The psychology of ethics promoted pivotal ethical affairs like the concept of ethical reasoning and its position in ethical judgments. With the help of genetic studies and neuroscience studies in recent years, this science promoted ethical reasoning. Jonathan Heed`s social intuitionalism model is the result of 20th century neuroscience researches and has a strong cultural background that has some differences with the works of Piajet and Kelberg. This paper aims at clarifying the analysis of this theory and presenting suggestions to criticize this point of view.