Macht Oder Ohnmacht? Das Leib-Seele-Problem Im Vorfeld Des Prinzips VerantwortungHans 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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Table des matières
The Altered Nature of Human Action | 3 |
I The Example of Antiquity | 4 |
II Characteristics of Previous Ethics | 6 |
III New Dimensions of Responsibility | 8 |
IV Technology as the Calling of Mankind | 11 |
V Old and New Imperatives | 12 |
VI Earlier Forms of Futureoriented Ethics | 14 |
VII Man as an Object of Technology | 19 |
Parent and Statesman as Eminent Paradigms | 100 |
The Horizon of the Future | 110 |
V How Far Does Political Responsibility Extend into the Future? | 119 |
VI Why Responsibility Was Not Central in Former Ethical Theory | 125 |
The Archetype of Responsibility | 132 |
Responsibility Today Endangered Future and the Idea of Progress | 138 |
II The Ominous Side of the Baconian Ideal | 142 |
III Is Marxism or Capitalism Better Fitted to Counter the Danger? | 144 |
VIII The Utopian Dynamics of Technical Progress and the Excessive Magnitude of Responsibility | 23 |
IX The Ethical Vacuum | 24 |
On Principles and Method | 27 |
II Prevalence of the Bad over the Good Prognosis | 33 |
III The Element of Wager in Human Action | 36 |
IV The Duty to Ensure a Future | 40 |
V Being and OughttoBe | 48 |
Concerning Ends and Their Status in Reality | 53 |
I The Hammer | 54 |
II The Court of Law | 55 |
III Walking | 58 |
IV The Digestive Organ | 67 |
From the Problem of Purpose to the Problem of Value | 77 |
The Good the Ought and Being A Theory of Responsibility | 81 |
First Distinctions | 92 |
IV Examining the Abstract Chances in the Concrete | 153 |
V The Utopia of the Coining True Man | 159 |
VI Utopia and the Idea of Progress | 162 |
A Critique of Utopia and the Ethic of Responsibility | 180 |
I The Wretched of the Earth and World Revolution | 182 |
II Critique of Marxist Utopianism | 188 |
III From the Critique of Utopia to the Ethics of Responsibility | 203 |
Impotence or Power of Subjectivity | 207 |
I The Incompatibility Argument | 209 |
II The Epiphenomenaiist Argument | 211 |
III Epiphenomenalism Voided by the Voiding of Incompatibility | 218 |
IV QuantumMechanical Review of the Proposed Solution | 224 |
Notes | 235 |
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Page 2 - Language, and thought like the wind and the feelings that make the town, he has taught himself, and shelter against the cold, refuge from rain. He can always help himself. He faces no future helpless. There's only death that he cannot find an escape from.
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| Titre | Macht Oder Ohnmacht? Das Leib-Seele-Problem Im Vorfeld Des Prinzips Verantwortung |
| Auteur | Hans Jonas |
| Traduit par | David Herr |
| Édition | réimprimée, révisée |
| Éditeur | University of Chicago Press, 1985 |
| ISBN | 0226405974, 9780226405971 |
| Longueur | 255 pages |
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