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1. Ethical judgments limit the methods available in the production of knowledge in both the arts and the natural sciences. Discuss.
Ethics is an interesting area of knowledge since they are very important to our human nature, yet they are not identical to everyone. According to moral relativism our values are determined by the society we grow up in, and there are no universal values (-). Therefore this implies that every culture has different ethical or moral values that are determined by their society. Art is no different, different cultures and people have different tastes in art. We can say that works of art are made with an intention or a meaning. Therefore depending on the culture the intention or meaning of a piece of art may differ. In some cases the meaning of a piece of art can be immoral to some people, this is evident in the political art “Kissing Doesn’t Kill: Greed and Indifference Do”. The natural sciences study the aspects of our reality that are tangible. This can be categorized into biology, chemistry, and physics. All of these natural sciences are different in its contributions to knowledge for example biology is the study of life, while chemistry is the study of the structure, properties, and changes in matter (-). Yet they are all connected and in many times put together to better understand the aspects of life. In the natural sciences ethics have limited the production of knowledge in many ways, one of them being the stem cell research in biology.
Biology helps us understand what we are and how we function. In my IB biology class we discussed the ethical implications in stem cell research. For many years the only two source of stem cells, or undifferentiated cells, came from the blastula of an embryo or the b...

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... of people with different sexual orientations but instead a problem of everyone. Thus the ethical values of our culture limited the production of knowledge in arts.
Our ethical codes are constructed as we start to understand the world we come from. From this we create a sense of what we consider to be right and wrong, yet this is different from person to person. People will most likely disagree to certain methods used to discover aspects of the human body in the natural sciences, but this doesn’t mean that knowledge should be disregarded. The same applies to the arts; knowledge is knowledge even if it goes against the ethical values of people. Moral relativism states that different cultures have different societies, thus if you don’t want your moral values to be discredited, then you shouldn’t discredit the moral values of others to further increase our knowledge.

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