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If we conclude that there is some knowledge we should not pursue on…
If we conclude that there is some knowledge we should not pursue on ethical grounds, how can we determine the boundaries of acceptable investigation within an area of knowledge? Discuss with reference to two areas of knowledge.
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Human Sciences
Boundaries: ethical guidelines, pressure imposed on by leading parties like governments, the law and religion.
Milgram experiment
Test subjects were led to believe that they were administering shocks to real people when told so by an authority figure.
This was immoral as it broke multiple ethical guidelines, including deception and right to withdraw.
The test subjects were deceived into fake shocking an actor.
It was stated that the test subjects could withdraw at any point, but were heavily encouraged to stay.
Anatomy
The first documented dissections of human bodies are dated to the 3rd century BC. Back then, society was heavily dominated by religion, and the church was heavily against the dissection of human bodies, as they feared that it would disprove their ideas of the human soul and the afterlife. However, anatomy nowadays is extremely helpful for things like medecine, where good knowledge of the body which was previously frowned upon required pushing ethical boundaries. Development is therefore shown to thirve on pushing the ethical boundaries.
Definitions
Boundaries
the edge or limit of something, the split between ethical and unethical.
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