%0 Journal Article %T Sobre el asco en la moralidad %A Salles %A Arleen L.F. %J Di¨˘noia %D 2010 %I Instituto de Investigaciones Filos¨®ficas, UNAM %X in this paper i focus on the moral role of disgust. after characterizing this emotion, i identify and critically examine three main objections recently presented to show that disgust is morally problematic. i argue that none warrant rejecting the moral appropriateness of disgust in all instances, for example, as a response to certain kinds of evil. i end by summarizing recent research in moral psychology that links the acceptance of disgust to a conservative view of morality. %K emotions %K hierarchy %K contaminants %K dignity. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0185-24502010000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en