الترشيد الأخلاقي للفلسفة في عصر العلمنة

الملخص EN

Scientific progress can be a necessity imposed by the needs of present-day and future society.

Nonetheless, secularization as a phenomenon may comprise a belief system encompassing all disciplines.

Hence, contemporary societies must combine ethics as value with science as knowledge.

It is noteworthy that secular ideas may have become dominant in contemporary intellect.

Accordingly, it might be necessary for man to recognize the urgent need for the return of both ethical question and act as the core topics of philosophy.

The latter may not be limited to the field of dealings only, but it can exceed and reach the field of science and knowledge.

Probably the task entrusted to philosophy requires working on the scientific results which may be used as a starting point to justify its stance towards science, as well as, reconciling philosophy with ethics.

One of the major scientific breakthroughs is globalization that must rank as one of its significant manifestations.

Furthermore, globalization is wide spread in all aspects of social, cultural, economic and political life.

etc., in addition to the biological revolution in its various branches or what is known today as bioethics “applied ethics”.

The latter has caused considerable controversy among scientists and philosophers.

Thus, these two model's globalization and biological revolution have been chosen to illustrate the immoral effects of science, and to prove the need of philosophy to rationalize and reconcile secularization with ethics.

Philosophy must return intellectually and ethically to confront scientific progress that is characterized by one material dimension