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- Title
BIOETIČKO RAZMATRANJE DOSTIGNUĆA SAVREMENIH NAUKA, POSEBNO GENETIKE.
- Authors
Kaluđerović, Željko
- Abstract
The modern civil era has given birth to the idea of freedom as a legitimate and regulatory basis for the totality of human activity, which implies that the whole process of scientific achievements may be highly ambivalent. Namely, although the results of scientific achievements have a primary tendency to progress and realization of the highest human values, at the same time they can also have adverse even catastrophic consequences. The utilitarian and reductionist reasoning of scientists may bring into question the survival of human kind and planet itself, as proven by the achievements of atomic physics and discoveries in genetics, and also indicating that what we have here is not merely a potential damage that can be neglected and minimized. The existing predominantly heteronomic bans, although necessary, are not sufficient unless the consciousness of the scientists themselves is raised to the level of adhering to general humanist moral postulates and postulates of scientific criticism. In complex times of intensifying social, technical and technological effects of science it is necessary to (bio)ethically codify the issue of the social responsibility of scientists, which due to its adequate interiorization has to be an integral part of their paideia since the very beginning. An adequate interdisciplinary and pluri-perspective approach, as well as the sense of responsibility should result in a different and more delicate attitude of the scientists themselves towards potentiality of their own scientific discipline and significance of its performance, however they should become a reason to abandon projects in science, economy or social sphere.
- Subjects
LIBERTY; HUMAN activity recognition; CRITICISM; PAIDEIA program; INTERDISCIPLINARY education
- Publication
Annual Review of the Faculty of Philosophy / Godisnjak Filozofskog Fakulteta, 2010, Vol 35, Issue 1, p307
- ISSN
0374-0730
- Publication type
Article