The Importance Of Knowledge In The Field Of Science

Humans are on the constant pursuit of knowledge, and there are many ways by which this knowledge can be attained. Two such ways may be through the arts and natural sciences. However, as humanity begins to think deeper to know more, more and more ethical concerns arise. The arts, for example, contribute to society by adding to the cultural symbols that make up a community. Sometimes, there may be artwork considered too vulgar or immoral for the public. In terms of natural sciences, researchers continue to release their discoveries about pressing diseases, medicine, and other topics. Nonetheless, there are areas of science where the ethical aspects must be considered before continuing, such as embryonic stem cell research or cloning. But do these ethical ideals pose limitations to how knowledge can be procured in these subject areas? Due to this, the knowledge question developed for this topic was “How do we know that ethics suppresses how the arts and natural sciences can produce knowledge?”. By looking at ethics through …show more content…
Especially in the biological aspects of natural sciences, researchers will need to consider if their methods of obtaining knowledge are ethical or otherwise. The field of medicine is a very limited area in terms of gathering knowledge about the human body. Following World War II, the Nuremberg Code was created as a standard by which physicians must abide if experimentation on humans is undertaken. The most relevant part of the code is number five which states that no experiment is to be done if there is some reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur (Mitscherlich and Mielke). Because of this part of the code, many ideas for experiments were rejected. If any research continued with disregard to the code, the results will not be accepted and will be void. This ethical limitation on human research projects have, in effect, suppressed the creation of new