The arts and sciences have completely different methods of creating knowledge, so the effects of ethical judgments on the arts and science are different. Ethics limits the production of knowledge in both the arts and the natural sciences. However, in the arts, ethical judgments do not limit the methods available for knowledge production, but rather the propagation of knowledge. On the other hand, ethical judgments effectively limit the methods available in knowledge production in the natural sciences, because ethical judgments are self-regulated in the natural sciences by reason due to the role of ethics in methods. An ethical judgment will be defined as an active condemnation for ethical/moral reasons. The difference between ethical judgments in the arts and in the natural sciences is that ethical judgments in the arts are primarily based on emotions and in the natural sciences they are primarily based on reason. One theory about the purpose of art is that “the arts are a means of expressing emotions” (Alchin). Art triggers emotions in the audience, so if a painting shows a person crying over their dead baby and trying to eat it to get over it, the audience may feel a wave of emotions: sad, repulsed, and disgusted. This may make the public feel that the painting is unethical and therefore the painting could be removed. On the other hand, in the natural sciences, scientists are likely to use reason and decide whether or about experimenting with something would be ethically correct. If the scientist has to choose between experimenting on humans or rats, he will choose, using inductive reasoning, to experiment on rats, because it is more ethical than the former. The difference between the two pro...... middle of paper ......i.e. knowledge contributes to society. The scientist's own desire to acquire knowledge versus society's need to obtain knowledge differ in degree of limitations since society's moral judgments have more limiting factors on the methods of creating the knowledge required by society. society than on the artistic or scientific desire to obtain this knowledge. Ethical judgments made by society can prevent certain art from being exhibited, thereby preventing private knowledge from becoming public. However, ethical judgments can prevent scientists from gaining this private knowledge about themselves, by limiting what and how something is studied. And this raises a question: how much more knowledge could we have today if ethical judgments did not prevent the arts and natural sciences from creating or exhibiting knowledge, and what harm might that have done us? ??