The Legacy of Hans Jonas

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004167226
Total Pages : 621 pages
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Download or read book The Legacy of Hans Jonas written by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-06-25 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international, interdisciplinary, and interreligious retrospective examination of Hans Jonas (1903-1993) that engages his ideas in light of Existentialism, utopian thought, process philosophy and theology, Zionism, and environmentalism.

Jonas

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Publisher : Belles Lettres
ISBN 13 : 9782251760735
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Jonas written by Éric Pommier and published by Belles Lettres. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Jonas (1903-1993), philosophe juif allemand, eleve de Husserl, Heidegger et Bultmann, ami de Hannah Arendt, successivement etabli en Palestine, au Canada et a New-York, a elabore une pensee originale, trop souvent recue dans la dispersion. On le connait tantot pour ses travaux sur la Gnose, tantot pour son livre Le Concept de Dieu apres Auschwitz, ou encore sa biologie philosophique , ou enfin le principe responsabilite qu'il a formule. On se propose ici d'exposer les grands themes de cette oeuvre - le nihilisme gnostique, l'enracinement dans le monde materiel, la refondation ethique - en prenant le concept de vie pour fil directeur parce qu'il donne a cette oeuvre plurielle son foyer et son unite. C'est en effet la decouverte d'un air de famille entre l'esprit de la Gnose et la pensee heideggerienne de l'existence qui conduit Hans Jonas a prendre conscience de l'oubli de la vie par la philosophie et a en repenser le concept dans un dialogue avec les donnees de la biologie. Fort d'une philosophie de la vie ainsi concue, il peut alors prendre en charge les defis contemporains lances par la technique en proposant une ethique de la responsabilite, qui fixe des obligations a l'egard de la vie et des generations futures. Eric Pommier est professeur agrege et docteur en philosophie de l'Universite Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne. Membre associe du CERSES, il poursuit ses recherches sur la philosophie contemporaine ainsi que sur le theme de la vie tant au plan phenomenologique qu'ethique a la Pontificia Universidad Catolica a Santiago.

The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas

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Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584656388
Total Pages : 300 pages
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Book Synopsis The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas by : Christian Wiese

Download or read book The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas written by Christian Wiese and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the Jewish background of an eminent philosopher

Global Ethics and Moral Responsibility

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317127862
Total Pages : 234 pages
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Download or read book Global Ethics and Moral Responsibility written by John-Stewart Gordon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophy of Hans Jonas was widely influential in the late twentieth century, warning of the potential dangers of technological progress and its negative effect on humanity and nature. Jonas advocated greater moral responsibility and taking this as a starting point, this volume explores current ethical issues within the context of his philosophy. It considers the vital intersection between law and global ethics, covering issues related to technology and ethics, medical ethics, religion and environmental ethics. Examining different aspects of Hans Jonas’ philosophy and applying it to contemporary issues, leading international scholars and experts on his work suggest original and promising solutions to topical problems. This collection of articles revives interest in Hans Jonas’ ethical reasoning and his notion of responsibility. The book covers a wide range of areas and is useful to those interested in philosophy and theory of law, human rights, ethics, bioethics, environmental law, philosophy and theology as well as political theory and philosophy.

Aspects éthiques de la reproduction humaine

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Publisher : John Libbey Eurotext
ISBN 13 : 9782742000869
Total Pages : 412 pages
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Download or read book Aspects éthiques de la reproduction humaine written by Claude Sureau and published by John Libbey Eurotext. This book was released on 1995 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hans Jonas et la liberté

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Publisher : Vrin
ISBN 13 : 9782711615704
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Book Synopsis Hans Jonas et la liberté by : Marie-Geneviève Pinsart

Download or read book Hans Jonas et la liberté written by Marie-Geneviève Pinsart and published by Vrin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Jonas bénéficie de la reconnaissance de ses pairs comme de la notoriété auprès d'un large public. L'auteur du " Principe responsabilité " est aussi un spécialiste de la religion gnostique, un philosophe de la vie analysant la dynamique de l'organisme et de l'esprit. La notion de liberté est un fil conducteur herméneutique pour exposer une pensée éclectique mais unitaire et originale.

Ethics and Environment. Éthique et environnement

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Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643908113
Total Pages : 275 pages
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Book Synopsis Ethics and Environment. Éthique et environnement by : Peter Kemp

Download or read book Ethics and Environment. Éthique et environnement written by Peter Kemp and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2016 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a serious take on the social-environmental crisis that our world suffers from today. In the first section the authors look at ethical responsibility in relation to the natural environment, whereas in the second section they examine ethical responsibility in the cultural and social environment. The third part includes papers devoted to the philosophy of Paul Ric (1913-2005), written by Ric scholars. The essays focus on ethics and the natural, social, or cultural enviroment in Ricoeur's thought. Half of the essays are in English; the other half are in French and German. (Series: Eco-Ethica, Vol. 5)[Subject: Religious Studies, Christianity Studies, Philosophy]

Memoirs

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ISBN 13 : 9781584656395
Total Pages : 364 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs written by Hans Jonas and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2008 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hans Jonas died in 1993 at the age of 89, he was revered among American scholars specializing in European philosophy, but his thought had not yet made great inroads among a wider public. In Germany, conversely, during the 1980s, when Jonas himself was an octogenarian, he became a veritable intellectual celebrity, owing to the runaway success of his 1979 book, The Imperative of Responsibility, a dense philosophical work that sold 200,000 copies. An extraordinarily timely work today, The Imperative of Responsibility focuses on the ever-widening gap between humankind’s enormous technological capacities and its diminished moral sensibilities. The book became something of a cultural shibboleth; he himself became a celebrated public intellectual. For Jonas, this development must have been enormously gratifying. In the 1920s, Jonas studied philosophy with Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger at the universities in Marburg and Freiburg, but the Nazi regime’s early attempts at Aryanizing the universities forced Jonas to leave Germany for London in 1933. He emigrated to Palestine in 1935 and eventually enlisted in the British Army’s Jewish Brigade to fight against Hitlerism. Following the Israeli War of Independence (in which he also fought), he emigrated to the United States and took a position in 1955 at the New School for Social Research in New York. He became part of a circle of friends around Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blucher, which included Adolph Lowe and Paul Tillich. Because Jonas’s life spanned the entire twentieth century, this memoir provides nuanced pictures of German Jewry during the Weimar Republic, of German Zionism, of the Jewish emigrants in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s, and of German Jewish émigré intellectuals in New York. In addition, Jonas outlines the development of his work, beginning with his studies under Husserl and Heidegger and extending through his later metaphysical speculations about “God after Auschwitz.” This memoir, a collection of heterogeneous unpublished materials—diaries, memoirs, letters, interviews, and public statements—has been shaped and organized by Christian Wiese, whose afterword links the Jewish dimensions of Jonas’s biography and philosophy.

Human Dignity of the Vulnerable in the Age of Rights

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319326937
Total Pages : 346 pages
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Download or read book Human Dignity of the Vulnerable in the Age of Rights written by Aniceto Masferrer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is devoted to exploring a subject which, on the surface, might appear to be just a trending topic. In fact, it is much more than a trend. It relates to an ancient, permanent issue which directly connects with people’s life and basic needs: the recognition and protection of individuals’ dignity, in particular the inherent worthiness of the most vulnerable human beings. The content of this book is described well enough by its title: ‘Human Dignity of the Vulnerable in the Age of Rights’. Certainly, we do not claim that only the human dignity of vulnerable people should be recognized and protected. We rather argue that, since vulnerability is part of the human condition, human vulnerability is not at odds with human dignity. To put it simply, human dignity is compatible with vulnerability. A concept of human dignity which discards or denies the dignity of the vulnerable and weak is at odds with the real human condition. Even those individuals who might seem more skilled and talented are fragile, vulnerable and limited. We need to realize that human condition is not limitless. It is crucial to re-discover a sense of moderation regarding ourselves, a sense of reality concerning our own nature. Some lines of thought take the opposite view. It is sometimes argued that humankind is – or is called to be – powerful, and that the time will come when there will be no vulnerability, no fragility, no limits at all. Human beings will become like God (or what believers might think God to be). This perspective rejects human vulnerability as in intrinsic evil. Those who are frail or weak, who are not autonomous or not able to care for themselves, do not possess dignity. In this volume it is claimed that vulnerability is an inherent part of human condition, and because human dignity belongs to all individuals, laws are called to recognize and protect the rights of all of them, particularly of those who might appear to be more vulnerable and fragile.

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Publisher : Odile Jacob
ISBN 13 : 2738184421
Total Pages : 312 pages
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Principles of International Environmental Law

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108420958
Total Pages : 1037 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Principles of International Environmental Law by : Philippe Sands

Download or read book Principles of International Environmental Law written by Philippe Sands and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 1037 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this essential text offers a comprehensive, critical and future-thinking commentary on international environmental law.

Ethics and Justice. Éthique et justice

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Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643909381
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Book Synopsis Ethics and Justice. Éthique et justice by : Peter Kemp

Download or read book Ethics and Justice. Éthique et justice written by Peter Kemp and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2017 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main theme of volume 6 of Eco-ethica is "Ethics and Justice" which focuses on the idea of "justice" in a metaphysical, social, and personal sense. Justice is considered as a balance between opposite ambitions in interdependent persons, and as equity in legislation, but not as blind justice. Today it is valuable not only on the national, but also on the cosmopolitan level. Before it became personal justice, the idea of justice was considered metaphysical and social, both in European and Chinese culture. However, in modern times, it is often reduced to a moral duty without meta-ethical responsibility. The last section considers the importance of the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) for clarifying the idea of justice. (Series: Eco-Ethica, Vol. 6) [Subject: Philosophy, Ethics]

Precautionary Principle, Pluralism and Deliberation

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119335760
Total Pages : 244 pages
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Book Synopsis Precautionary Principle, Pluralism and Deliberation by : Bernard Reber

Download or read book Precautionary Principle, Pluralism and Deliberation written by Bernard Reber and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume tackles the burden of judgment and the challenges of ethical disagreements, organizes the cohabitation of scientific and ethical argumentations in such a way they find their appropriate place in the political decision. It imagines several forms of agreements and open ways of conflicts resolution very different compared with ones of the majority of political philosophers and political scientists that are macro-social and general. It offers an original contribution to a scrutinized interpretation of the precautionary principle, as structuring the decision in interdisciplinary contexts, to make sure to arrive this time to the “Best of the Worlds”.

Frog Pond Philosophy

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813167299
Total Pages : 266 pages
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Download or read book Frog Pond Philosophy written by Strachan Donnelley and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philanthropist and philosopher Strachan Donnelley (1942--2008) devoted his life to studying the complex relationship between humans and nature. Founder and first president of the Center for Humans and Nature, Donnelley was a pioneer in the exploration and promotion of the idea that human beings individually and collectively have moral and civic responsibilities to natural ecosystems. In this wide-ranging volume, Donnelley traces the connections between influential figures such as Aldo Leopold and Charles Darwin, as well as lesser-known but original thinkers that he met during the course of a full life -- ministers at his church, friends with whom he fished, and colleagues who shared his passion for research and writing. He grounds his work in classic philosophers such as Descartes, Spinoza, and Whitehead and reinterprets their writings about the natural world to develop a conservation-centered philosophy, which he dubs "democratic ecological citizenship." Edited by his daughter, Ceara Donnelley, and Bruce Jennings, Frog Pond Philosophy illuminates the dominant strands of Donnelley's intellectual identity as a philosopher, naturalist, agitator, and spiritualist. Despite his often grim depiction of the current state of the environment, Donnelly never surrenders his faith in humanity's ability to meet its ethical obligations to conserve, respect, and nurture the complexity and diversity of the natural world. His vivid and personal essays, rooted in everyday experiences, offer a distinctive perspective on questions of urgent contemporary importance.

Philosophy, Ethics, and Politics

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509544178
Total Pages : 190 pages
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Book Synopsis Philosophy, Ethics, and Politics by : Paul Ricoeur

Download or read book Philosophy, Ethics, and Politics written by Paul Ricoeur and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this series of interviews and dialogues which took place between 1981 and 2003, Paul Ricoeur addresses some of the central questions of political philosophy and ethics: justice, violence, war, the environmental crisis, the question of evil, ethical and political action in the polis. Philosophical issues are brought to bear on present-day concerns and the practical realities of contemporary politics. How can the philosopher speak about politics without claiming superior insight or a higher order of knowledge? Ricoeur distinguishes three levels of society: ‘tools’ (modes of production and the accumulation of technology), ‘institutions’ (which are tied to national cultures) and ‘values’ (which claim to be universal). The philosopher’s task is to probe each of these levels and open up spaces for reflection, criticism and democratic deliberation. It is to explore the paradoxes of the political rather than invoking certainties dictated by conscience. Just as there no longer exists a grand narrative about the past, so too there is no longer any utopia capable of projecting the desired future. What remains is human creativity, which marks the source common to the institutional frameworks that are already present and the horizons that extend beyond them. The philosopher’s engagement lies in the promise to revive this source at the very moment it appears to dry up under the weight of the real. This volume of interviews and dialogues with one of the most important French philosophers of the post-war period will be of interest to anyone interested in the great political and ethical questions of our time.

Memory of the West

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900445876X
Total Pages : 231 pages
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Download or read book Memory of the West written by Reyes Mate and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks back in order to look forward. It is a sustained reflection on the great disillusion Europe experienced after World War I. Europeans understood that bombs had buried the Enlightenment. They knew that, to avoid catastrophe, they had to think anew. The catastrophe came, but Cohen, Benjamin, Kafka, and Rosenzweig had sounded the warning.

Facing Gaia

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745684378
Total Pages : 300 pages
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Book Synopsis Facing Gaia by : Bruno Latour

Download or read book Facing Gaia written by Bruno Latour and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world. The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented scale. Some call it the Anthropocene, but it is best described as a new climatic regime. And a new regime it certainly is, since the many unexpected connections between human activity and the natural world oblige every one of us to reopen the earlier notions of nature and redistribute what had been packed inside. So the question now arises: what will replace the old ways of looking at nature? This book explores a potential candidate proposed by James Lovelock when he chose the name 'Gaia' for the fragile, complex system through which living phenomena modify the Earth. The fact that he was immediately misunderstood proves simply that his readers have tried to fit this new notion into an older frame, transforming Gaia into a single organism, a kind of giant thermostat, some sort of New Age goddess, or even divine Providence. In this series of lectures on 'natural religion,' Bruno Latour argues that the complex and ambiguous figure of Gaia offers, on the contrary, an ideal way to disentangle the ethical, political, theological, and scientific aspects of the now obsolete notion of nature. He lays the groundwork for a future collaboration among scientists, theologians, activists, and artists as they, and we, begin to adjust to the new climatic regime.