Open AccessJahr i Potter
Author(s) -
Antonio Fábio Medrado de Araújo,
Eduardo Martins Netto,
María Susana Ciruzzi,
Nilo Henrique Neves dos Reis,
Liliane Lins-Kusterer
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
jahr
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.103
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 1848-7874
pISSN - 1847-6376
DOI - 10.21860/j.11.1.5
Subject(s) - bioethics , german , neologism , eugenics , hoax , paragraph , bridge (graph theory) , philosophy , epistemology , history , biology , law , political science , linguistics , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , anatomy
With the science of survival article and lately the book “bridge to the future” Potter became famous releasing the neologism “bioethics” and then known as the founder of bioethics. However, 43 years before, Jahr had proposed a similar idea in the article “Bio-ethics: reviewing the ethical relations of humans towards animals and plants (translated from German)”. We propose to correct the idea that Jahr is merely a precursor—and not a founder—of bioethics, here speculating the bridge bioethics of Rensselaer Potter as close similarity with Jahr’s thoughts. Following the “content analysis” method, a table was built to compare the theoretical schemes of Potter and Jahr, correlating by qualitative meta-analysis, each paragraph of Jahr’s base text (1927) with Potter’s analogous (1970). The similarity of the texts reveals that, in theory, Potter benefited from Jahrist utopia, imposing it a reductionist lineage. Potter expresses, therefore, an ethnological capture of jahrism.