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Title:: Neuroethics: A New Approach to Examining and Transcending Arguments between Universalism and Relativism in Ethics

Abstract:: With the rapid development of cognitive neuroscience research methods and increasingly high demands for an ethics research paradigm, a new important interdisciplinary research field named neuroethics has emerged. This new research paradigm goes beyond abstract theory of human nature and argument of enumeration. In order to acquire successful solution to different controversial ethical issues, it looks for evidence and answers via advanced neural imaging technologies of cognitive neuroscience. Many longdrawn questions have got satisfactory answers, including whether moral judgment is driven by reason or emotion and whether it is rulebased or intentionbased. In order to promote the development of neuroethics, neuroscientists and educators must work together effectively in the future, and neuroethics should actively strengthen the “scientistpractitioners” training.