Ethical Implications in the Fields of Science and Arts

The knowledge question is asking to identify and discuss ethical implications that might interfere with the production of knowledge in the field of natural sciences and arts. Ethics is defined as the moral principles that govern a person’s or group’s behaviors and actions towards a certain subject. Ethical implications are the problems that a certain action would have on ethics. This particular essay title tackles the areas of knowledge of natural sciences and arts and ethics. Many knowledge issues can be associated with this topic such as “To what extent do ethical judgments interfere in the way art displays emotion and spreads knowledge?”, and “To what extent do ethical judgments limit the development of research and experimentation of a certain field in the natural sciences?” By answering these knowledge issues individually, the main question can be answered.

To answer the knowledge issues above, this essay will explain what ethical judgments are and why they are made and how they relate to the ways of knowing. Ethical judgments are the thinking about what the overall outcome and possible act of a certain situation might have and then judging what action is the most appropriate by linking it back to ethics. This can link to three ways of knowing, reason, emotion, and sense perception. If one must decide to go forward with a decision, one must reason all the possible outcomes of his decisions and go forward with the one most appropriate, therefore using reasoning. Another way one might ethically judge something is by linking a certain topic to their emotions. One might disagree with animal testing and consider it unethical because they care about the animals, therefore using emotion to ethically judge something. Sense perception...

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...ause they try to make a change in this world. There is also another similarity between them; they are both victims of ethical judgments. The natural sciences have been affected by these ethical judgments in a way that they have been restricted from developing their ideas and theories and have been restricted from certain experiments, and the arts have been affected in a way that their way of expressing emotion has been limited and the spread of knowledge from these artwork have also been limited. However, ethically questionable situations can also influence and inspire artists to create pieces of art. This means that ethical judgments do limit the methods available in the production of knowledge in the natural sciences to a huge extent. However it does not limit the production of knowledge in arts, but rather increase the methods of producing knowledge in the arts.