ETHICAL ASSESSMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE BEYOND SCIENCE.

Diego C. Blettler ¹; Guillermina A. Fagúndez²

Abstract

Man has achieved a conceptual construction of the world that is increasingly ample and profound through scientific research; this medium renders the universe more and more predictable and, to a certain point, malleable with the help of appropriate technology. Such a tool ought not to remain on the borderline of achievements and methods of ethical judgement. However, according to the particular understanding that each one has regarding what constitutes “science” and its limits, it is possible to arrive at conclusions that cleave to ethical judgements and responsibilities by their effects. Contrarily, from another epistemological perspective, it becomes evident that responsibilities and compromises are attributed to science while creating realities. This text proposes considering the ethical integrity of the researcher as an inseparable part of scientific activity at a determined historical time, thus creating a path upon which underlying responsibilities are attributed for the effects, achievements and flaws of scientific activity. All these, without losing sight that science as the ethical vision that conditions and judges, are offspring of the same historic moment whose only indubitable truth is the permanence of change.