Ethics and Political Philosophy
Ethics and Political Philosophy
PEC 3
Gabriel Benavides Escriva
Hans Jonas, The changed nature of human action
This chapter, which is the subject of our study is the first book The principle of responsibility: ethics test for technological civilization, and is titled, "The changed character of human action."
Hans Jonas studied in this chapter, the changes that have occurred in the history of mankind by emphasizing technological vocation of homo sapiens and what this means from the point of view of the relationship between man and nature and from the viewpoint of relationships among men. Analyzes the characteristics of ethics, old and new challenges and the absence of a future-oriented ethics.
The author, Kantian ethics discussed to demonstrate that the maximum principal targets of the individual logical consistency in their actions, which is insufficient when it has become aware of the importance of the temporal dimension, that is, of the responsibility collectively with the future, with the men of the future.
It recognizes, however Hans Jonas, who has been other modern ethical unethical of contemporary and immediacy, but also point to the future and anticipates that its own ethic of responsibility will have to be measured with these other, both religious and secular, and in particular with those he called, utopian.
Hans Jonas said that the old nature to be manifested as "a whole", with its own laws in equilibrium constant in time, immutable, and hence of any kind unstoppable vital domain contained therein. Nature, therefore, subject to man 's everyday survival action, being restricted to their vital needs this. However, the man, different from other species by their capacity for abstraction and memory, as it could be, rationality, devised concrete forms or actions, to circumvent the challenges and limitations which nature tried to subdue him.
The technique, which led to the innumerable gadgets and objects, appears here as a
PEC 3
Gabriel Benavides Escriva
Hans Jonas, The changed nature of human action
This chapter, which is the subject of our study is the first book The principle of responsibility: ethics test for technological civilization, and is titled, "The changed character of human action."
Hans Jonas studied in this chapter, the changes that have occurred in the history of mankind by emphasizing technological vocation of homo sapiens and what this means from the point of view of the relationship between man and nature and from the viewpoint of relationships among men. Analyzes the characteristics of ethics, old and new challenges and the absence of a future-oriented ethics.
The author, Kantian ethics discussed to demonstrate that the maximum principal targets of the individual logical consistency in their actions, which is insufficient when it has become aware of the importance of the temporal dimension, that is, of the responsibility collectively with the future, with the men of the future.
It recognizes, however Hans Jonas, who has been other modern ethical unethical of contemporary and immediacy, but also point to the future and anticipates that its own ethic of responsibility will have to be measured with these other, both religious and secular, and in particular with those he called, utopian.
Hans Jonas said that the old nature to be manifested as "a whole", with its own laws in equilibrium constant in time, immutable, and hence of any kind unstoppable vital domain contained therein. Nature, therefore, subject to man 's everyday survival action, being restricted to their vital needs this. However, the man, different from other species by their capacity for abstraction and memory, as it could be, rationality, devised concrete forms or actions, to circumvent the challenges and limitations which nature tried to subdue him.
The technique, which led to the innumerable gadgets and objects, appears here as a
Bibliography: • JONAS, Hans, "The changed character of human action." The principle of responsibility: ethics trial of a technological civilization. • http://www.alcoberro.info/V1/jonas.htm Kraków, November 30, 2012