Werturteilsfreiheit? Approach to the ethical “bounds” of modern science

What can scientific knowledge mean for our moral life, especially if we focus our attention at the level of those value-judgments habitually bound to the results of the scientific quest? Is there any connection between the endlessness of the scientific questioning of the world and the infinity of th...

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Autor: Fonti, Diego Osvaldo
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:Argentina
Recursos:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
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Idioma:inglés
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Religión
Modernidad
Valores
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spelling Werturteilsfreiheit? Approach to the ethical “bounds” of modern scienceFonti, Diego OsvaldoEticaReligiónModernidadValoreshttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6What can scientific knowledge mean for our moral life, especially if we focus our attention at the level of those value-judgments habitually bound to the results of the scientific quest? Is there any connection between the endlessness of the scientific questioning of the world and the infinity of those in front of whom we pose that question? These questions bring to mind an influential author of the 20th century: Emmanuel Levinas. His first main work is called Totality and Infinity. An Essay on Exteriority, and his whole point is to show that when meeting another human being, when really seeing his countenance, his face, a meaning is shown, that exceeds and surpasses every power of reason, every concept, every institution and every scientific result – in philosophical terms every “totality” –, because in the concrete face of the Other an Infinity is shown and calls us in the shape of a commandment. And the only genuine answer is the responsibility for his or her life. But how could we argue from this “radical experience” of the Other and forge a bridge towards the results – knowledge and technical power – of science?Fil: Fonti, Diego Osvaldo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Católica de Córdoba; ArgentinaSuvidya College2011-12info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/14805Fonti, Diego Osvaldo; Werturteilsfreiheit? Approach to the ethical “bounds” of modern science; Suvidya College; Suvidya; 5; 2; 12-2011; 35-450974-6110enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://www.journal.suvidya.org/Journals/user_view/5info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2024-05-08T14:16:21Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/14805instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982024-05-08 14:16:21.616CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
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title Werturteilsfreiheit? Approach to the ethical “bounds” of modern science
spellingShingle Werturteilsfreiheit? Approach to the ethical “bounds” of modern science
Fonti, Diego Osvaldo
Etica
Religión
Modernidad
Valores
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
title_short Werturteilsfreiheit? Approach to the ethical “bounds” of modern science
title_full Werturteilsfreiheit? Approach to the ethical “bounds” of modern science
title_fullStr Werturteilsfreiheit? Approach to the ethical “bounds” of modern science
title_full_unstemmed Werturteilsfreiheit? Approach to the ethical “bounds” of modern science
title_sort Werturteilsfreiheit? Approach to the ethical “bounds” of modern science
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Fonti, Diego Osvaldo
author Fonti, Diego Osvaldo
author_facet Fonti, Diego Osvaldo
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Etica
Religión
Modernidad
Valores
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
topic Etica
Religión
Modernidad
Valores
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
description What can scientific knowledge mean for our moral life, especially if we focus our attention at the level of those value-judgments habitually bound to the results of the scientific quest? Is there any connection between the endlessness of the scientific questioning of the world and the infinity of those in front of whom we pose that question? These questions bring to mind an influential author of the 20th century: Emmanuel Levinas. His first main work is called Totality and Infinity. An Essay on Exteriority, and his whole point is to show that when meeting another human being, when really seeing his countenance, his face, a meaning is shown, that exceeds and surpasses every power of reason, every concept, every institution and every scientific result – in philosophical terms every “totality” –, because in the concrete face of the Other an Infinity is shown and calls us in the shape of a commandment. And the only genuine answer is the responsibility for his or her life. But how could we argue from this “radical experience” of the Other and forge a bridge towards the results – knowledge and technical power – of science?
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