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Appendix C Science and Ethics
Appendix C Science and Ethics
Pages 31-34
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In the case of science following its methods, it is necessary to concede the validity and appropriateness of research; there is no need to consider ethics at all. However, if one says that the researcher should honestly follow the rules of the scientific method, which is an ethical constraint per se, and then conclude that it is impossible to have science without ethics, the original argument is somehow misleading.
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In this world neither science nor politics depends on ethics, and each has its own origins and fundamentals. But this is not the end of the story.
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In a sense, it is acceptable to say that defending human values is ethics, but it is noteworthy that common beliefs and moral habits should not be mistaken for the true ethical rules. Common beliefs and ethical habits are important, but as soon as these values are to be defended by immoral means, their moral force vanishes.
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Violence, wherever it is, from whatever side it emanates, and with whatever justification, destroys freedom and justice and demolishes ethics. Marquis De Sade and Denis Diderot, the two great French authors, were right to say that whenever wisdom and science are separated from ethics and ethical ends they act against themselves and turn to violence and savagery.
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