Research article
Rule of law, public philosophy and moral responsibility of scientists
Państwo prawa, filozofia publiczna i odpowiedzialność moralna naukowców
Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, nr 2(9)/2014, s. 85-94
English
Abstract
The paper discusses some relationships between the rule of law and the public philosophy. It is unquestionable that nowadays the scientism has become one of the dominant ideologies of industrial and post-industrial societies. Scientists and researchers take an active part in public life, are advisors to governments and corporations, comment in the media important public events. Thus, the problem arises of their moral and legal responsibility for what they say and do in public life. In my opinion, we may distinguish two different models of responsibility, which I call a model of scientist as an ordinary citizen and model of scientist always on duty. To put it another way, we may ask, whether the scientist in public life like an ordinary citizen can act in accordance with his political, economic or religious sympathies and preferences or just like a judge, priest or a physician is always „on duty” and always must follow all the rules of his profession. I defend the view that the adoption of the second model is one of the necessary preconditions of the existence of informed and rational public opinion and thus, the informed and rational rule of law.
Keywords
- rule of law
- moral responsibility
- legal responsibility
- public philosophy
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L. Morawski, Rule of law, public philosophy and moral responsibility of scientists, „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej” nr 2(9)/2014, s. 85–94, DOI: 10.36280/afpifs.2014.2.85
ACM
[1] Lech Morawski. 2014. Rule of law, public philosophy and moral responsibility of scientists. AFPiFS 2(9) (2014), 85–94. https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2014.2.85
ACS
(1) Morawski, L. Rule of Law, Public Philosophy and Moral Responsibility of Scientists. AFPiFS 2014, No. 2(9), 85–94. https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2014.2.85.
APA
Morawski, L. (2014). Rule of law, public philosophy and moral responsibility of scientists. Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, 2(9), 85–94. https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2014.2.85
ABNT
MORAWSKI, Lech. Rule of law, public philosophy and moral responsibility of scientists. Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, n. 2(9), p. 85–94, 2014.
Chicago
Morawski, Lech. “Rule of Law, Public Philosophy and Moral Responsibility of Scientists.” Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, no. 2(9) (2014): 85–94. https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2014.2.85.
Harvard
Morawski, L. (2014) “Rule of law, public philosophy and moral responsibility of scientists,” Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, 2(9), pp. 85–94. Available at: https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2014.2.85.
IEEE
[1] L. Morawski, “Rule of law, public philosophy and moral responsibility of scientists,” AFPiFS, no. 2(9), pp. 85–94, 2014, doi: 10.36280/afpifs.2014.2.85.
MLA
Morawski, Lech. “Rule of Law, Public Philosophy and Moral Responsibility of Scientists.” Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, no. 2(9), 2014, pp. 85–94, https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2014.2.85.
Turabian
Morawski, Lech. “Rule of Law, Public Philosophy and Moral Responsibility of Scientists.” Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, no. 2(9) (2014): 85–94. https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2014.2.85.
Vancouver
1. Morawski L. Rule of law, public philosophy and moral responsibility of scientists. AFPiFS. 2014;2(9):85–94. doi:10.36280/afpifs.2014.2.85
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Lech Morawski, ‘Rule of law, public philosophy and moral responsibility of scientists’ (2014) 2(9) AFPiFS 85 <https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2014.2.85>.