By Theresa Morris
Articulates the basic value of ontology to Hans Jonas’s environmental ethics.
regardless of his super influence at the German eco-friendly celebration and the impact of his paintings on modern debates approximately stem telephone learn within the usa, Hans Jonas’s (1903–1993) philosophical contributions have remained in part obscured. particularly, the ontological grounding he provides his ethics, in accordance with a phenomenological engagement with biology to bridge the “is-ought” hole, has now not been totally favored. Theresa Morris offers a complete evaluation and research of Jonas’s philosophy that unearths the thread that runs via all of his suggestion, together with his paintings at the philosophy of biology, ethics, the philosophy of know-how, and bioethics. She areas Jonas’s philosophy in context, evaluating his principles to these of alternative moral and environmental philosophers and demonstrating the relevance of his proposal for our present moral and environmental difficulties. Crafting powerful assisting arguments for Jonas’s insightful view of ethics as an issue of either cause and emotion, Morris convincingly lays out his account of the foundation of our duties not just to the biosphere but additionally to present and destiny generations of beings.
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