The Necessity of Morality in the Production of Science with an Emphasis on the Islamic Sources of Ethics

The purpose of this article is to prove the necessity of morality in the process of producing science based on Islam's ethical principles. The method of this research is to perform a comparative analysis of the theories of philosophers of science and the contemporary scholars of ethics in this subject, especially the Western scholars and Islamic sources. Our contemporary scholars obligate the producers of science and the scientific community to respect ethics; their reason is the principles which are not only accepted in Islamic ethics, rather they are considered the basic principles of the religion of Islam and Islamic ethics. The necessity of preserving rights and science is the most important principle used by the scholars in this regard which has a firm position in Islamic ethics as well. After a comparative analysis of these two principles in this article, a new principle titled 'the necessity of preserving soul' is presented which is specifically the result of an Islamic approach to ethics. The result of this research is: 'the necessity of morality in the production of science is provable and defendable on the basis of Islam's ethical principles'.