科技伦理:功利与道义的调适与坚守——以美国干细胞研究禁放之争为例

Sci-tech Ethics:The Adjustment and Conviction of Utility and Morality——Taking the Dispute on the Banning and Opening of the Stem-cell Research in America as an Example

美国干细胞研究禁放之争表明,在大科技时代,科技已成为与社会高度相关、受多方利益驱动、受价值观念影响、受宗教信仰限制的实践活动,科技伦理不是伦理道德之善单向度地规范科技,而是科技与伦理的双向运动,是科技的功利效应与伦理的道义效应所导致的价值观念上的冲突与博弈、调适与坚守。美国干细胞研究禁放之争对于人类社会认识科技与伦理的关系的本质、构建符合时代特点的科技伦理具有重要的启示意义。

The dispute on the banning and opening of the stem-cell research in America indicates that,in the age of big science and technology,science and technology has become such a practice which is highly connected with society,greatly influenced by value views,and much limited by religious faiths,that the sci-tech ethics does not mean normalizing the development of science and technology unilaterally by the goodness of morality,but the mutual movement between science and technology.The sic-tech ethics is nothing but the confliction and chess-playing,the adjusting and sticking,caused by the utilities of science and technology.The dispute on the banning and opening of the stem-cell research in America is revealingly important for human society to know the nature of the relation between sci-tech and ethics so as to establish a set of sci-tech ethics fit for its age.