Ideations of the Body. Neurosciences and Theory of Society

Surprisingly, today it is the natural sciences that offer convincing perspectives of critical theory in the study of the relationship between individual and society. In particular, as we have already seen, the neurosciences have introduced highly significant new information regarding the relationship between body, mind and the environment of the human being. Revealing that the body has a natural physiological predisposition to cooperate and share with others, for some time now developments in neurobiology have paved the way for a series of interesting implications in very diversified fields of research, including sociology. There is little doubt now about the fact that the integrity of the mechanisms of emotion and feelings is necessary for human behaviour that conforms with ethics and laws, or that the codification of the various rules expressed by society would not have been possible if there were not a natural penchant for this on the level of emotions and feelings. Furthermore, a world without the emotions of fondness, attachment, compassion, embarrassment and other social emotions would be entirely inconceivable. This orientation of scientific research certainly cannot be overlooked. Starting with Darwin’s theory of evolution, continuing with Mendel’s study of genetics and going on to the most recent experimental studies on emotion and those on the bíos as a mathematical-ideational space, it has been possible to underscore the cognitive value of emotions, along with the undeniable fact that the most archaic physiological mechanisms harmoniously regulate the relationship of the individual body-brain-mind but also social relations