THE ETHICAL DIMENSION OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH WHICH INVOLVES INVESTIGATIONS ON PEOPLE WITH VISUAL DISABILITIES
Keywords:
ethical difficulties, responsibility, probability, existenceAbstract
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.
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