The biology of ethics or the ethics of biology? The biologist's quest for meaning

Authors

Nejat Düzgüneş, University at Buffalo, The State University of New YorkFollow

ORCiD

Nejat Düzgüneş: 0000-0001-6159-1391

Department

Biomedical Sciences

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Acta Biotheoretica

ISSN

0001-5342

Volume

27

Issue

1-2

DOI

10.1007/BF00048406

First Page

124

Last Page

129

Publication Date

3-1-1978

Abstract

The biologist's involvement in value issues concerning the methodology of biological sciences, in establishing the biological basis of ethics and in creating a value system based on biological knowledge is examined. It is proposed that the roots of this involvement are in the conflict of the knowledge-ethic with the established system of values and in the need for metaphysical explanation. © 1978 Leiden University Press/Dr. W. Junk b.v.

Recommended Citation

Düzgüneş, N. (1978). The biology of ethics or the ethics of biology? The biologist's quest for meaning. Acta Biotheoretica, 27(1-2), 124–129. DOI: 10.1007/BF00048406
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/dugoni-facarticles/523