Ethics and science: debate of urgency

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Ethics; scientific; Science.

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Ethics is a characteristic to every human action, aiming to facilitate the fulfillment of people. The science involves research and search for truth. In science we have an ethical as support for no mistakes, because the responsibility is part of ethics and is essential in the scientific environment. The scientific production does not take place outside a particular social and political context. This study is intended to conceptualize science and ethics, showing the relationship between them. Science is based on research, investigations and demands that theories are internally consistent and tell the truth about reality. Being the knowledge that results from rational work.

While establishing ethical principles and values that guide people and society. According to Aurelio Dictionary (1996, p.73), ETHICS is "the study of assessment judgments that refer to human conduct likely to view the qualification of good and evil, whether in relation to particular society, is absolutely ".
Science tries to discern ethical wisdom the best for humans. Which is important this ethical appeal in science, because society depends on the consequences.

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[...] Invitation to philosophy. Sao Paulo: Attica HOLLAND, Aurélio Buarque de. Dictionary. Rio de Janeiro: New Frontier Ladrière, J. Ethics and scientific thinking: philosophical approach to the issue bioethics. [translation: Hilton Japiassu] London: Letters & Letters / SEAF, sd VASQUES, Adolfo S. Ethics. 10th ed. Rio de Janeiroa: Civilization Brasieleira 1997. [...]

[...] Ethics and science: debate of urgency Ethics is a characteristic to every human action, aiming to facilitate the fulfillment of people. The science involves research and search for truth. In science we have an ethical as support for no mistakes, because the responsibility is part of ethics and is essential in the scientific environment. The scientific production does not take place outside a particular social and political context. Keywords: Ethics; scientific; Science INTRODUCTION This study is intended to conceptualize science and ethics, showing the relationship between them. [...]

[...] Characterize someone or some behavior as unethical is an immediate and irrevocable form of condemnation IMPORTANCE The social consequences of science become more present in daily life. The development of knowledge took charge of disturbing the border between science and technology. The relationships between them can no longer be thought of in the simple form of two clearly separate instances. In the presence of science in general in the face of technology, requires us to restore the ethical issues. Science is a kind of knowledge can overcome the subjectivity of the scientist himself and prejudices of common sense, and one aspect of responsibility. [...]

[...] That is, is the science of a specific form of human behavior. " Aims to facilitate the fulfillment of people. It can be thought of as responsibility, ethics that takes into account the consequences and effects of the acts that people make. That is, we have to think, evaluate and consider before acting. In its historical origin, ethical values are linked to violence, that is, "different social and cultural backgrounds have established sets of ethical values as standards of conduct, intersubjective and interpersonal relationships, social behaviors that could ensure the physical integrity and psychic of its members and the preservation of the social group "(Chau p. [...]

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