Ethical judgments limit the methods available in the production of knowledge in both the arts and the natural sciences. Discuss. As our quality of life improves, we start to focus on our environment and other beings/organisms. During this process of focusing on other things, we encounter more and more ethical problems. This leads to the knowledge issue, to what extend does ethics limit a knowers’ acquisition of knowledge? Over time these ethical judgments lead to limited knowledge production, especially in the arts and natural sciences. Ethical decision can be made due to emotions which limits knowledge. Art requires much emotion not only to enjoy, but to create as well. Biological arts, such as Body Worlds use real deceased bodies to display the inner beauty of humans. Since all these bodies are acquired through donations from the unfortunate before they died, we tend to relax about all the dead bodies and enjoy the knowledge presented by the artistic displays. Now let us say that the bodies are from normal civilians that were kidnapped and killed, the ethical code would start to show and this event would get negative media coverage in addition to the government’s attention. Let us manipulate this example again, what if the bodies are from criminals who have murdered and/or have performed nasty crime; their deaths were then caused by human intensions and some methods of their death were recorded and used as an experimental purpose in an artistic fashion, or even experimentation in general? Some people such as the victims may support the display of the knowledge created by their death, and would access this knowledge. Others would say this is wrong and would never even go close to that source of knowledge. A very good example fro... ... middle of paper ... ...urns Bush policy on stem cells - CNN.com. [online] Available at: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/09/obama.stem.cells/ [Accessed: 10 Mar 2014]. - Jewishvirtuallibrary.org. 2014. Background & Overview of Nazi Medical Experiments | Jewish Virtual Library. [online] Available at: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/nazi_experiments.html [Accessed: 10 Mar 2014]. - Rebollo, A. 2014. Stem Cell Injections Improve Spinal Injuries in Rats. [online] Available at: http://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2013-05-28-stem-cell-spinal-graft.aspx [Accessed: 10 Mar 2014]. - Rippon, H. and Bishop, A. 2004. Embryonic stem cells. Cell Proliferation, 37 (1), pp. 23--34. - PETA. 2010. Mice and Rats in Laboratories. [online] Available at: http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/animals-laboratories/mice-rats-laboratories/ [Accessed: 10 Mar 2014].
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Production of knowledge is generally seen in a positive light. However, when ethics and morality become involved in the process of production, judgements will undoubtedly be made that may seem to limit the availability of that knowledge. Ethical judgements are made by the combination of a knower, his or her standard of value, and the situation itself. In the field of the arts and natural sciences, ethics plays a crucial role in the extent one may possibly be allowed to go to when discovering new knowledge. Reason and emotion are important ways of knowing that help guide knowers in making certain moral decisions. Both ways of knowing can be associated with teleological or deontological arguments; the ethics are based on either an objectives-focused or obligations-focused mindset. In this essay, I will be discussing the limitations set on both the arts and the natural sciences as areas of knowledge. To what extent do ethical implications hinder the way art can be produced or the methods involved in expanding society’s knowledge of science?
A person making an ethical judgment uses reason to decide what is the best alternative to resolve one problem or to determine that one alternative is morally right and another alternative morally wrong. In short, ethical judgment is a process of considering several alternatives and choosing the most ethical one. In the natural sciences there are always ethical norms that limit how knowledge can be produced. In the natural sciences, experimentation is an important method of producing knowledge but ethical judgments can limit the use of this method.
Ethics is the study of moral values and the principles we use to evaluate actions. Ethical concerns can sometimes stand as a barrier to the development of the arts and the natural sciences. They hinder the process of scientific research and the production of art, preventing us from arriving at knowledge. This raises the knowledge issues of: To what extent do moral values confine the production of knowledge in the arts, and to what extent are the ways of achieving scientific development limited due to ethical concerns? The two main ways of knowing used to produce ethical judgements are reason, the power of the mind to form judgements logically , and emotion, our instinctive feelings . I will explore their applications in various ethical controversies in science and arts as well as the implications of morals in these two areas of knowledge.
To the great extend ethical judgements limit the methods available in the production of knowledge in both the arts and the natural sciences. But in my opinion such a limitations are essential, while people need to be to some extend controlled. The boundaries are needed because giving to people to much freedom and power is very dangerous. The only one problem in case of ethical judgements is that the perception about something wrong or right differs among the people. I think that this comes from the inside, generally there are some “informal laws” how to behave, what is good and bad, but this is a personal matter of every single person which ones from that “laws” he or she accept and reject. The morality is determined by culture and experiences and differs among people. If there would not be something like moral code the production of knowledge in art the same as in natural science would not have any limitations. Using examples from art and biology I will try to show how ethical judgements limit the methods available in the production of knowledge in both the arts and the natural sciences, but also I will try to explain my statement that such a limitations are necessary.