Biotopes and Bioethics are highly complex and adaptable systems of Bios. Individual bios is
terminal, but the stream of Bios goes on. Basic properties of Bios such as communication …

Reasoning truly is the basis for innovation, but science and technology themselves are
value-neutral. Walther Zimmerli more than once has underlined in research and teaching, in …

Bioethics, as we are too infrequently reminded, was originally an ethical system concerned
with the 'problems of interference with other living beings… and generally everything related …

Bioethics must emerge from biological findings. Without biological findings or without a basic
biological understanding of the human person there can be no bioethics. Here I take the …

The development of moral consciousness in advanced societies has gradually formed two
levels of reflection and language within the moral realm: the morality of everyday life, and …

In 1785, German philosopher Immanuel Kant introduced the'categorical imperative'for
human persons, based on the sanctity of the moral law. Over a century later, Fritz Jahr, a …

This book is a philosophically-oriented introduction to bioethics. It offers the reader an
overview of key debates in bioethics relevant to various areas including; organ retrieval …

The term> Bioethik< was first used by Fritz Jahr 1926 in introducing the> Bioethical
Imperative: Respect every living being in general as an end in itself and treat it, if possible …

By Fritz Jahr he strict distinction between animal and human being [Mensch], dominant in
our European culture up to the end of the 18th century, cannot be supported anymore. he …

No other field of study reflects the contemporary age more faithfully than bioethics, a
systematic study of moral conduct in life sciences and medicine. Medicine and the life …