Moral Code of Conduct in Sciences: What-ness, Why-ness and How to Formulate

Despite great progresses in Iran, there are very few works on formulating moral code of conducts. As a result, moral conflicts in social and scientific activities have turned into a serious pathology in the society. Since many specialists have concerned about providing moral codes based on Islamic-Iranian culture in recent years, it is necessary to formulate the manual of style and formulation of these codes of conduct. The present paper was conducted with the aim of formulating the compilation style of these codes of conduct. The findings show that formulation of codes of conduct has six stages as follow: (1) finding the cases which need moral decision; (2) specifying those in charge who need moral codes; (3) recognizing moral challenges in that science; (4) determining moral principles; (5) specifying a fundamental approach in ethics; and (6) formulating moral code of conduct in that science. Of course, it should be noted that some considerations have been proposed regarding the stages before formulating the code of conduct and using it.