The Imperative of Responsibility,9780226405964

The Imperative of Responsibility

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ISBN13: 9780226405964
ISBN10: 0226405966
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2025-08-12
Publisher(s): University of Chicago Press
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Summary

Hans Jonas here rethinks the foundations of ethics in light of the awesome transformations wrought by modern technology: the threat of nuclear war, ecological ravage, genetic engineering, and the like. Though informed by a deep reverence for human life, Jonas's ethics is grounded not in religion but in metaphysics, in a secular doctrine that makes explicit man's duties toward himself, his posterity, and the environment. Jonas offers an assessment of practical goals under present circumstances, ending with a critique of modern utopianism.

Table of Contents

Preface
The Altered Nature of Human Action
The Example of Antiquity
Characteristics of Previous Ethics
New Dimensions of Responsibility
Technology as the ""Calling"" of Mankind
Old and New Imperatives
Earlier Forms of ""Future-oriented"" Ethics
Man as an Object of Technology
The ""Utopian"" Dynamics of Technical Progress and the Excessive Magnitude of Responsibility
The Ethical Vacuum
On Principles and Method
Ideal and Real Knowledge in the ""Ethic of the Future""
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