[marron]Abstract[/marron]

Between 1927 and 1934, Fritz Jahr, a protestant pastor, German phi-losopher and teacher published a number of articles in which he introduced, for the first time, the concept of bioethics. He did this in a visionary way and in dialogue with science, philosophy, and the art of his time (Theodor Fechner, Rudof Eiler, Friedrich Ernst, Daniel Schleiermacher, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Richard Wagner, among others.) He proposed a reshaping of the Kantian imperative in terms of the “bioethical imperative,” which introduced three lines of interest to the contemporary development: (1) set the outlines of ethical premises in animal research, (2) included the ecological agenda in bioethical concerns, (3) established the birth of bioethics related to major scientific, philosophical, aesthetic and political transformations of the latest nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century.

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Bioethics Fritz Jahr Kant Zeitgeist