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Fritz Jahr’s Bioethical Imperative

Ivana Zagorac orcid.org/0000-0003-4487-2102 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

It seems that the revitalisation of Fritz Jahr’s thought has come just at the right time. During the course of its rapid development, bioethics managed to assume different forms, but also to become both reduced in its underlying intention and hyper-specialised in its theoretical and practical aspects. Summed up in his bioethical imperative, Fritz Jahr’s thought prompts us to re-examine both its underlying intention and its field of interest. Accordingly, this paper centres on Jahr’s bioethical imperative, its origins, construction and implications, aiming to scrutinise Jahr’s original thought and his message within the contemporary discourse on bioethics in general and that on integrative bioethics in particular. The latter is examined only in its outlines, leaving room for a possible upgrade. Lastly, the paper looks at the Rijeka Declaration as a document that represents an attempt to both conceptually and methodologically transform contemporary bioethics within the context of Jahr’s thought.*

Keywords

Fritz Jahr; bios; bioethical imperative; Rijeka Declaration

Hrčak ID:

72493

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/72493

Publication date:

23.8.2011.

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