The term biosophy

The term Biosophy was probably first used by Pythagoras in Greece in the west. In the orient, it was first used by S. Smithe as "life study" from early 1990s. 


Bio= life
Sophy= science of ,  wisdom,  knowledge
Ignaz Paul Vitalis Troxler, a Swiss philosopher, in 1806 is also reported to use the term. 
It was later used by other philosophers such as Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899-1990), who used biology as the foundation of his philosophy. Zapffe first set out his ideas in Den sidste Messias (en. The Last Messiah) (1933). Later Zapffe gave a more systematic defence in his philosophical treatise Om det tragiske (en. On the tragic) (1941). The Biosophical Institute claims that Dr. Frederick Kettner (1886-1957) was the founder of biosophy. Kettner was himself originally inspired by the organicism of Constantin Brunner.

See also
Peter Wessel Zapffe