The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life – Albert Einstein.
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Ethics is a set of standards, a code, or value system, worked out from human reason and experience, by which free human actions are determined as ultimately right or wrong, good, or evil. If acting agrees with these standards, it is ethical, otherwise unethical.
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Scientific research refers to a persistent exercise towards producing new knowledge to unveil a new stream of ideas in academia for humankind.
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Research ethics refer to some of the genres that researchers follow to protect the rights in developing research strategies and building a trusted relationship between the...
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Rana, J., Dilshad, S., Ahsan, M.A. (2021). Ethical Issues in Research. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_462-1
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