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Ethical judgments limit the methods available in the production of knowledge in both the arts and the natural sciences. Discuss. As our quality of life improves, we start to focus on our environment and other beings/organisms. During this process of focusing on other things, we encounter more and more ethical problems. This leads to the knowledge issue, to what extend does ethics limit a knowers’ acquisition of knowledge? Over time these ethical judgments lead to limited knowledge production, especially in the arts and natural sciences. Ethical decision can be made due to emotions which limits knowledge. Art requires much emotion not only to enjoy, but to create as well. Biological arts, such as Body Worlds use real deceased bodies to display the inner beauty of humans. Since all these bodies are acquired through donations from the unfortunate before they died, we tend to relax about all the dead bodies and enjoy the knowledge presented by the artistic displays. Now let us say that the bodies are from normal civilians that were kidnapped and killed, the ethical code would start to show and this event would get negative media coverage in addition to the government’s attention. Let us manipulate this example again, what if the bodies are from criminals who have murdered and/or have performed nasty crime; their deaths were then caused by human intensions and some methods of their death were recorded and used as an experimental purpose in an artistic fashion, or even experimentation in general? Some people such as the victims may support the display of the knowledge created by their death, and would access this knowledge. Others would say this is wrong and would never even go close to that source of knowledge. A very good example fro... ... middle of paper ... ...urns Bush policy on stem cells - CNN.com. [online] Available at: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/09/obama.stem.cells/ [Accessed: 10 Mar 2014]. - Jewishvirtuallibrary.org. 2014. Background & Overview of Nazi Medical Experiments | Jewish Virtual Library. [online] Available at: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/nazi_experiments.html [Accessed: 10 Mar 2014]. - Rebollo, A. 2014. Stem Cell Injections Improve Spinal Injuries in Rats. [online] Available at: http://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2013-05-28-stem-cell-spinal-graft.aspx [Accessed: 10 Mar 2014]. - Rippon, H. and Bishop, A. 2004. Embryonic stem cells. Cell Proliferation, 37 (1), pp. 23--34. - PETA. 2010. Mice and Rats in Laboratories. [online] Available at: http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/animals-laboratories/mice-rats-laboratories/ [Accessed: 10 Mar 2014].

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