Why ethics called science?

Answer 1

The relationship between science and Ethics

Experts say that the Modern World began on 1919 when a couple pictures takes from Sobral, Brazil and Occidental Africa proved a new theory of the universe, "The Theory of Relativity". This sounded as the voice of a new era, and it was. Due to this pictures, during most of the 1920´s, the world experienced a decline in the religious beliefs, especially among the educated people because they realized, thank to science, that the world "created by gods" and described in old books, never existed. Consequently, how can people even consider that science do not affect ethics?

Throughout history, there have been thousand of scientists who, with their discoveries and ideas, have influenced the world. I would only describe three of them, which I consider the most influential thinkers of recent times. Our history begins with Galileo. He created on the XVII century, what became the ferment of the natural philosophy which was the origin of the scientific and industrial revolutions. On the other hand, The Newtonian physics which was a huge part of the XVIII century Enlightment also contributed to the modern nationalism and the revolutionary politics while the Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest was the key element in both, the Marxist concept of class warfare as well as the racial philosophies that shaped Hitlerism.

Answer 2

Experiments such as those performed on human victims by the infamous Dr. Mengele in the Nazi regime of WW II are a strong example of extreme ethical violation in empirical medical science. Some other less extreme but still disturbing examples include the extensive use of psychotropic drugs on juveniles by the psychopharmaceutical industry, which hires its own researchers and is not properly overseen. Sometimes the results have proven tragic. In research of empirical medical sort, it is best to remember the very first tenet of the Hippocratic Oath: "First, Do No Harm!"

In other areas of science, the principles should closely follow the essence of this maxim.

Answer 3

ethics usually a discuss in philosophy. however there is the interdisciplinary study of the philosophy of science which has that deal with has a branch that deals with ethics in science.