Enrique Bocardo-Crespo

Vico dio forma a una rica y atractiva concepción de los estados subjetivos, emociones, esperanzas, temores y –en general– de todas aquellas experiencias morales basadas en su peculiar noción de fantasia. Vico reivindicó que somos capaces de entender el significado de nuestra moral y de los conceptos que empleamos para expresar nuestras visiones éticas a través de los “universales fantásticos” cuando se entienden como arquetipos de nuestras experiencias. Aquiles, Ulises o los dioses y héroes de los mitos clásicos son formas generales o patrones de acción, una cierta clase de prototipos que dan a entender una gran variedad de cualidades y acciones que, de otra manera, resultaría difícil de comprender.Vico shaped both a rich and an attractive view of state of minds, emotions, hopes, fears and of those human experiences which are broadly connected with our moral conceptions based on his bold notion of fantasia. Vico claimed that we are able to understand the meaning of our morals through the universali fantastici when they are understood in terms of archetypes. Achilles, Ulyses or the gods and heroes of the classical myths are pictured as general forms of actions, a sort of prototypes which purport a variaty of qualites and actions which otherwise might be missed

Recent trends in Cognitive Ethics have emphasized the conceptual debts with the development of the Science of Human Nature in the late 1600s and early 1700s. The paper deals mainly with two major theoretical approaches in the cognitive revolution, that is possible to offer an explanation of the cognitive mechanisms involved in moral decision processes in terms of abstract principles allegedly embedded in human nature; and that there might be substantive reasons to assume a moral faculty to account for the capacity to issue a potential infinite number of considered moral judgments.