| Titre | Éthique et esprit scientifique | |
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| Auteur | Serge Latouche | |
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Revue | L'Homme et la société |
| Numéro | no 84, 2e trimestre 1987 Éthique et science sociale | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Éthique et esprit scientifique |
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| Page | 7-16 | |
| Résumé anglais |
S. Latouche, Ethics and the scientific mind
The article is not mainly devoted to the traditional problems, namely the ethics of the applications of science and science's claims to found an ethic. Its main aim is to show that social science has ethical implications. The latter are manifested on three levels, that of the operative choices in the elaboration of the scientific corpus, that of the assumptions in the appropriation of the scientific object itself, and finally, that of the criteria of scientificity. Social science is inevitably a « moral » science. Its concepts involve values, its object can only by apprehended by cutting into the flesh of societies, its rules of validation are a form of morality — which has complex relationships with Ethics. The ethical implications of social science can contribute to moral life but also run the risk of misdirecting it. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/homso_0018-4306_1987_num_84_2_2280 |
