Bases of the current absence of ethical sense in science

• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Angélica Lyra de
• Data de Publicação: 2003
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais
• DOI: 10.5433/2176-6665.2003v8n2p193
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/9075
• topic: Science; Modern reason; Instrumentalization; Ideology; Ethics; Ciência; Razão moderna; Instrumentalização; Ideologia; Ética

This paper shows a discussion on how and why, nowadays, ethics and science find themselves separated. We'll treat about the building up of a scientific rationality that has intended to be ethically neutral, and the social-cultural consequences of this modern sciences posture. Our study is based on the analyses developed by the Critical Theory over reason and modernity, principally on the concept of instrurnentalization. In this same perspective, we’ll also do some considerations about the matter of the ideology present in the sciences, that is, about the manipulation of sciences to keep economical-political interests of the hegemonic class. Instrurnentalization and ideological usage will be highlighted as processes that have generated the lacking of ethical meaning in the sciences, making them a menace to all living beings in the planet, phenomenon that indicates the urgent necessity of ethical reflection on power and limits of the sciences.