Programska knjižnica 9. Lošinjskih dana bioetike - Hrvatsko ...

the term and concept of bioethics in the early 1970s has been brought into
question. Sass, namely, has proved that bioethics had been conceived by
the German theologian Fritz Jahr as early as in 1927, in a paper entitled
“Bioethics: An Overview of Ethical Relations of the Man toward Animals
and Plants” (“Bio-Ethik: Eine Umschau über die ethischen Beziehungen
des Menschen zu Tier und Pflanze”), published in the journal Kosmos.
In the years following Sass’ discovery, the ideas by Fritz Jahr have been
propagated mostly and most rapidly toward Croatia, Chile, and Argentina,
where new papers have been published, analyzing Jahr’s teaching and importance,
but very little is known on Jahr’s life and the circumstances that
had influenced his pioneering contribution to bioethics.
The present paper, besides trying to summarize and evaluate former
publications on the work by Fritz Jahr, ventures into a reconstruction of the
most important stages of the life of Paul Max Fritz Jahr from the German
city of Halle, from his birth in 1895, his schooling, marriage, pastoral and
teacher work, to his premature retirement in 1933 and death in 1953. That
reconstruction is based upon Jahr’s works, as well as upon documents from
the archives of the City of Halle, the Francke Foundation, and the Sachsen-
Anhalt Province University- and Country Library.
JOS SCHAEFER-ROLFFS
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany /
Ruhrsko sveučilište u Bochumu, Njemačka
ECOLOGY –
THE ESSENTIAL CHALLENGE OF THE NEW EPOCH?!
One of the essential challenges for the 21st Century will be to deal
with the environment in a new way. It is increasingly obvious that it is not
possible to enhance the capitalistic output anymore without thinking about
the consequences on the environment that are part of the production, and
how it might be possible to influence them.
It is the claim of integrative bioethics and this conference in particular,
to think about the new epoch, but the questions of ecology are not as much
in the centre of the consideration as their relevance might suggest.
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