Hans Jonas: Life, Technology and the Horizons of Responsibility

ISBN-13: 9781350216662 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 248 str.

Lewis Coyne

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Preface Acknowledgements Introduction I. Jonas’s Philosophical Project II. The Man and His Work 1. The Gnosticism of Modernity I. The Gnostic Principle II. Nihilism, Ancient and Modern III. The Scientific Revolution IV. The Age of Technology V. The Baconian Ideal 2. The Philosophy of Life I: The Organism I. Dualism, Materialism, Integral Monism II. The Phenomenological Approach to Organismic Being III. Self-Organization IV. Behaviour V. The Nisus of Being 3. The Philosophy of Life II: The Scala Naturae I. Aristotle After Darwin II. Plants III. Animals IV. Humans V. Being is One 4. Values and the Good I. The Axiological Dimension of Teleology II. Species and the Biosphere III. The Good of Being IV. Moral Traditions 5. New Dimensions of Responsibility I. Ethics, Old and New II. The Temporal Horizon III. Responsibility for the ‘Idea of Man’ IV. Global and Intergenerational Ethics V. Duties to Non-Human Life 6. The Politics of Nature I. The Nature of Politics II. New Rules for Collective Action III. Farewell to Utopia? IV. Rival Interpretations of Jonas’s Politics V. Freedom and the Republic 7. Toward a Richer Bioethics I. The Dignity of the Person II. Human Beings as Means III. The Threshold of Life and Death IV. The Future of the Human Condition Conclusion I. Humanity: The Shepherd of Beings II. Carrying the Fire Notes Bibliography Index