10. Lošinjski dani bioetike - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

IVA RINČIĆ, AMIR MUZUR
Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Croatia /
Medicinski fakultet, Sveučilište u Rijeci, Hrvatska
The Concept and Project of European Bioethics
All until recently, the term »European bioethics« was quite rarely used
and shaded by the phenomenon of general “Americanisation”. Even today,
after the discovery of the work of Fritz Jahr (1895–1953) and after placing
the first concept of bioethics (both terminologically and substantially) to
Germany of the 1920s, “European bioethics” is not easy to define theoretically,
nor is it easy to advocate the uniqueness of its identity. The rootedness
of “European bioethics” (and the necessity of this rootedness) in a
specific geographical-historical context, and its foundation upon the heritage
of European classic and modern thinkers (Aristotle, Kant, Schweitzer,
Jahr, Jonas, etc.) may most certainly be considered to be a key determinant.
However, the relationship between “European” on the one hand and
“Asian” (“Far-Eastern”), “Latin-American” and perhaps other “bioethicsö
on the other remains to be defined.
Setting out from these presuppositions, a far-reaching project has recently
been launched in Croatia on the research and affirmation of the roots
and of the integrative pluriperspectival methodology of “European bioethics”
as a category that opposes the widely spread practice of reducing
modern bioethics to medical ethics and principalism. This project includes
the first international symposium on the work of Fritz Jahr, his models and
reaches, which was held in Rijeka and Opatija (Croatia) on 11–12 March
2011, the formation of an international scholars’ network (EuroBioNethics),
the formulation of The Rijeka Declaration on the Future of Bioethics, and
the establishment of the “Fritz Jahr Award” for the research and promotion
of European Roots of Bioethics.
Koncept i projekt europske bioetike
Sve donedavno, termin »europska bioetika« bio je poprilično rijetko
korišten i zasjenjen posvemašnjom »amerikanizacijom«. Ni danas, nakon
otkrića djela Fritza Jahra (1895.–1953.) i lociranja prvog koncepta bioetike
(i terminološki i sadržajno) u Njemačkoj 1920-ih godina, »europsku bio-
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