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| Responsibility: Responsibility is the state of being accountable for something. It is the obligation to do something or to take care of something. See also Duties, Community, Behavior, Actions._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility - Dictionary of Arguments
Brocker I 607 Responsibility/Jonas: Initiated by the 1973 Club of Rome report on the limits of growth (see Progress/Club of Rome), among other things, an ecological awareness developed worldwide that dealt with the risks of modern large-scale technology. This is the historical background to Jonas' ethical main work The Principle of Responsibility (1979). Jonas' thesis: the survival of humanity is endangered and we all bear responsibility that "a humanity exists".(1) >Duty/Jonas, Ethics/Jonas, Existence/Jonas. Brocker I 608 Modern technology, however, has created an expanded dimension of responsibility that extends to the entire biosphere. >Nature/Jonas, Ethics/Jonas. New types of responsibility are future and remote responsibility (2), which must complement the existing near and present ethics. Brocker I 616 Jonas: "Power combined with reason carries responsibility in itself." (3) 1. Hans Jonas, Das Prinzip Verantwortung. Versuch einer Ethik für die technologische Zivilisation, Frankfurt/M. 1979, S. 91. 2. Ibid. p. 42, 63, 175. 3. Ibid. p. 248. Manfred Brocker, „Hans Jonas, Das Prinzip Verantwortung“ in: Manfred Brocker (Hg.) Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt/M. 2018_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Jonas I Hans Jonas Das Prinzip Verantwortung. Versuch einer Ethik für die technologische Zivilisation Frankfurt 1979 Brocker I Manfred Brocker Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert Frankfurt/M. 2018 |
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