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The Roots of European Bioethics

The idea of integrative bioethics undoubtedly represents both an intellectual product of the region of Southeast Europe and a certain novum, most certainly when it comes to theoretical and practical limits of bioethics which streams from principalism. The conceptual footholds of integrative bioethics are characterized by historical-philosophical connections to an intellectual heritage of mostly European thinkers. This paper will thus focus on three authors: St. Francis of Assisi, Fritz Jahr, and Albert Schweitzer. Their intentions can generally be defined as a search for guidelines − non-anthropocentric, non-reciprocal, and not simply formal ones − which should underline our everyday actions. The intended overview wishes to provide grounds for a reconstruction of the specific tradition of bioethics thought in Europe. This overview also wishes to emphasize the history of idea rather than its geographical settings, nevertheless the idea of the integrative bioethics reveals itself as a solid alternative to the reduced, principle oriented, bioethics that has grown from effort embedded in works of North America´s authors.

integrative bioethics; European bioethics; St. Francis of Assisi; Albert Schweitzer; Fritz Jahr

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