Hans Jonas
Hans Jonas
Hans Jonaswas a German-born philosopher, from 1955 to 1976 the Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth10 May 1903
CountryGermany
heed latest lest mount mute perish powers revelation sermon themselves
The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
assess criterion evaluate human imperative responsibility
Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.
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Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.
hazards man stake
Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.
advanced conscious degrees man
If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.
ecology excessive exploits human original religion sinners
It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
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To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.