Ethics: A Guide for Science

Ethics is crucial for science. This article aims to outline the relationship between ethics and science. Science as a profession cannot be separated from ethics. Scientists require not only rigorous methods and procedures in their work but also ethics to guide them. They are demanded as experts in their elds and as good persons. Ordinary people (non-scientic society) trust reliable scientists who have good competence, skill and personality. Hence, integration of science and ethics brings up epistemic trust, on the one hand among scientists and on the other hand among scientists and non-scientic society. There are various kinds of ethics that can be a guide for the scientic work of scientists. However, in this article I oer Karol Wojty“a's personalist ethics based on the philosophy of being as a guide for science.