O Princípio responsabilidade como avaliação das políticas em ciência e tecnologia

Abstract

The ideal of science played by modernity and ratified by Positivism, whose knowledge should be built under the aegis of the neutrality and objectivity of the scientific method and whose technology’s meaning should be restricted to the merely instrumental, this led us to the belief that both science and technique mustdistance itself from the evaluative scope of the ethic and social dimension. In these terms, the decisions, regarding policies on science and technology, also it began to acquire such a claim, disregarding the local culture. This problematic, rather than scientific or political, is also ethical. This paper analyses, therefore, the policy application in science and technology based on the ethics of responsibility of Hans Jonas, using as an illustrative the cultivation of irrigated fruit crops in Ipanguaçu/RN. Of exploratory and qualitative feature, this study uses the literature (Jonas, Shiva, Herrera, Albano, etc.) and field research to collect data