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Hans Jonas - Life, Technology and the Horizons of Responsibility (Hardcover)
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Hans Jonas - Life, Technology and the Horizons of Responsibility (Hardcover)
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Hans Jonas (1903-1993) was one of the most important German-Jewish
philosophers of the 20th century. A student of Martin Heidegger and
close friend of Hannah Arendt, Jonas advanced the fields of
phenomenology and practical ethics in ways that are just beginning
to be appreciated in the English-speaking world. Drawing here on
unpublished and newly translated material, Lewis Coyne brings
together for the first time in English Jonas's philosophy of life,
ethic of responsibility, political theory, philosophy of technology
and bioethics. In Hans Jonas: Life, Technology and the Horizons of
Responsibility, Coyne argues that the aim of Jonas's philosophy is
to confront three critical issues inherent to modernity: nihilism,
the ecological crisis and the transhumanist drive to
biotechnologically enhance human beings. While these might at first
appear disparate, for Jonas all follow from the materialist turn
taken by Western thought from the 17th century onwards, and he
therefore seeks to tackle all three issues at their collective
point of origin. This book explores how Jonas develops a new
categorical imperative of responsibility on the basis of an
ontology that does justice to the purposefulness and dignity of
life: to act in a way that does not compromise the future of
humanity on earth. Reflecting on this, as we face a potential
future of ecological and societal collapse, Coyne forcefully
demonstrates the urgency of Jonas's demand that humanity accept its
newfound responsibility as the 'shepherd of beings'.
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