Ethical judgments limit the methods available in the production of knowledge in both the arts and natural sciences. Discuss. As the quality of our life improves, we begin to focus on our environment and other beings/organisms. During this process of focusing on other things, we encounter more and more ethical problems. This leads to the question of knowledge: to what extent do ethics limit the acquisition of knowledge by knowers? Over time these ethical judgments lead to limited knowledge production, especially in the arts and natural sciences. The ethical decision can be made due to emotions that limit knowledge. Art requires a lot of emotion not only to enjoy, but also to create. Biological arts, such as Body Worlds, use real deceased bodies to show the inner beauty of human beings. Since all these bodies are acquired through donations from the unfortunate before they died, we tend to relax about all the corpses and enjoy the knowledge presented by the artistic displays. Now let's say the bodies belong to normal civilians who were kidnapped and killed, the code of ethics would begin to shine through and this event would get negative media coverage as well as government attention. Let's manipulate this example again: what if the bodies came from criminals who killed and/or committed horrible crimes? was their death therefore caused by human intentions and were some methods of their death recorded and used for experimental purposes in an artistic way or even as experimentation in general? Some people, such as victims, could support the manifestation of the knowledge created by their death and would access this knowledge. Others would say it's wrong and would never go near that source of knowledge. A great example from... half of the document... Bush's stem cell policy - CNN.com. [online] Available at: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/09/obama.stem.cells/ [Accessed: 10 March 2014].- Jewishvirtuallibrary.org. 2014. Context and Overview of Nazi Medical Experiments | Jewish virtual library. [online] Available at: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/nazi_experiments.html [Accessed: 10 March 2014].- Rebollo, A. 2014. Stem cell injections improve spinal injuries in rats. [online] Available at: http://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2013-05-28-stem-cell-spinal-graft.aspx [Accessed: March 10, 2014]. - Rippon , H. and Bishop, A. 2004. Embryonic stem cells. Cellular Proliferation, 37 (1), pp. 23--34.- PETA. 2010. Mice and rats in laboratories. [online] Available at: http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/animals-laboratories/mice-rats-laboratories/ [Accessed: 10 March 2014].