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(1981) The roots of ethics, Dordrecht, Springer.
The Tradition That Science is one of the highest, if not the highest, human enterprise goes back to the ancient Greeks and has continued virtually unchallenged to the present. At one time, perhaps, the exaltation of science was accepted only by a minority of insiders. But today it is obviously part of the public faith of the scientific establishment, if not of our society at large. As Philip Handler puts it, "The search for truth is man's noblest enterprise."(l) Further, scientists comprise "The world's greatest army devoted to good works… for the scientists attack falseness of every kind and accept no doctrine until the last doubt has been disposed of."(2) In this paper, I want to discuss some philosophical questions concerning the supposedly superior moral status of scientific activity.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-3303-6_17
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Ladd, J. (1981)., Are science and ethics compatible?, in D. Callahan & T. Engelhardt (eds.), The roots of ethics, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 373-402.
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