Abstract

GARCES, Luis Fernando  and  GIRALDO ZULUAGA, Conrado. Virtue: right reason in a scientist who experiments with animals. Civilizar [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.24, pp.181-192. ISSN 1657-8953.

Virtue according to Aristotle's thought is a medium term with regard to us regulated by right reason, as a prudent man. would act. It is that mode of being by which man becomes good and through which he performs his function very well. Virtue and that good must be a generator of happiness in man. It depends just on man it is expected that the scientist who experiments with animals to act according to discuss what is good, particularly what does good especially to other forms of life that his actions are mediated by reason to choose what is good , not for himself but for the common good.

Keywords : Virtue; prudence; bioethics; Aristotle; experimentation with animals; right reason.

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