The imperative of responsibility : in search of an ethics for the technological age / Hans Jonas ; translated by Hans Jonas, with the collaboration of David Herr.

By:

Jonas, Hans, 1903-1993 [author]

Contributor(s):

Herr, David [translator]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1984.Description: xii, 255 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9780226405971

Uniform titles:

Prinzip Verantwortung. English

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

BJ1453 .J6613 1984

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.

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Bibliography: p. [233]-246.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.