La responsabilidad profesional y ética en la experimentación con animales: una mirada desde la prudencia como virtud
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Date
2013-10-22
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Corporación Universitaria Lasallista
Abstract
Performing experiments with animals requires that
professionals regard their research works as rational
acts and aim to concrete, logic and prudent
(phronesis) acts. This intellectual virtue is the one
Aristotle speaks about in his Nicomachean Ethics,
which alludes the right intention in human acts. This
paper reflects about phronesis and the way it makes
a contribution to the scientists who work with animals in order to help them taking reflected decisions
that are sustained on the information required and
necessary in order to avoid harming other life forms.
Intellectual virtues are fundamental for the development
of science that aims to find the truth and the
right reasoning. The good habits that can make intellectual
virtues more perfect are a solid base to form
the researcher´s character.
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Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, Bioética, Ética profesional, Ética, Experimentos con animales, Ética científica