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HOYOS VASQUEZ, Guillermo. Ciencia y ética desde una perspectiva discursiva. Convergencia [online]. 2006, vol.13, n.42, pp.117-131. ISSN 2448-5799.

This article seeks to contribute the understanding of the crisis of globalization from the relations among science, technology and morality point of view. The phenomenon of terrorism, also the one of the State, the world injustice, the desire of men to have total control over human life, as well as the deterministic reduction of all human freedom should be able to summon the moral resources of all human groups, in order to look for an ethical solution to the problems of a unilateral neo-liberal globalization. To do this, there is the possibility of dialog in the search of a world ethos. The theory of communicative action, developed by Jürgen Habermas, can help to understand the relations between science and moral in a similar way to that proposed by Kant, but with other resources, those of politics and ethics. Science, Technology and Society, with the help of communication and dialog, force us to reformulate the sense of university as the place of dialog and more human discursive production in globalization times.

Palavras-chave : Science; technology and society; discursive ethics; human freedom; scientific naturalism; religions; post-secular society.