Can bioethics live without tradition and history? How Fritz Jahr translated the 5th Commandment into the present and future. A methodological and conceptual case study.

摘要

It is an empirical fact that research and education in modern applied ethics, including bioethics, rarely do include a critical dialogue with philosophical or moral traditions. It is argued that such an attitude, which follows the methods of empirical sciences, is deficient and inappropriate for the humanities. Th is paper demonstrates, how Fritz Jahr uses the 5th Commandment of the Jewish-Christian tradition to discuss most modern actual issues in a pluralistic postmodern society.