THE ETHICAL DIMENSION OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH WHICH INVOLVES INVESTIGATIONS ON PEOPLE WITH VISUAL DISABILITIES Cover Image

THE ETHICAL DIMENSION OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH WHICH INVOLVES INVESTIGATIONS ON PEOPLE WITH VISUAL DISABILITIES
THE ETHICAL DIMENSION OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH WHICH INVOLVES INVESTIGATIONS ON PEOPLE WITH VISUAL DISABILITIES

Author(s): Alina Gîmbuţă
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Universității Aurel Vlaicu
Keywords: ethical difficulties; responsibility; probability; existence;

Summary/Abstract: The ethical dimension of academic research which involves investigations on people with visual disabilities can be ignored or made non-priority, hidden behind objectivity and validation of the research. Often, this ethical dimension can be in a shadow when the researcher takes some of the most important decisions for the success of the research. However, the human existential condition involves naturally the ethical dimension as responsible rationality (Gadamer, ed.2001) in all the circumstances of the human interactions, and because the academic research is exactly a human interaction form, the respect for involved people’ s life must be a priority. The existential fragility legitimates the ethical intentions for any research which involves disabled persons and validates the relativity of the human universe, as proof and guarantor for existential infinity and authenticity. Ethics does not disturb an academic research work that starts from the probable hypotheses because a really truth intention cannot omit the duality of the human whole and cannot put in the brackets a subsidiary privacy of the feelings (in case of the researched and the researchers) by concentrating on what are often seen as measurable and accounted realities.

  • Issue Year: VIII/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 81-90
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English