Scientific ethics. Some fundamental remarks about necessities and possibilities

Whenever one tries to connect Science and Ethics, it is necessary to look into the past to get a better understanding of the current situation. That is why l would like to start this article by talking about important, pre-modern roots. The next part will deal with the necessity of a modern scientific ethics. The goal of this article, which also makes up the main part of these considerations, will be about giving an outline as well as illustrating basic problems of the new area of scientific ethics as a scientific sub-field. At last, I will suggest a very contemporary challenge.

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