Philosophical Essays is a pivotal volume in the collected works of Hans Jonas (1903-1993), one of most important German-American philosophers of the last half of the 20th century. Of the four books published in English during his lifetime, it is the only one to include contributions from his three primary areas of achievement: philosophical reflection on gnosticism, on biology, and on technology - hence the subtitle, "From Ancient Creed to Technological Man." The three sections of the book are, however, given in reverse order with essays on "Science, Technology, and Ethics" preceding papers on "Organism, Mind, and History" and "Religious Thought of the First Christian Centuries." The temporally ultimate project is that which Jonas sees as having philosophical priority. This collection of 18 essays originally published between 1965 and 1974 - that is, after completion of The Phenomenon of Life (1966) but before The Imperative of Responsibility (1984) - manifests the most intensive integration of Jonas's three projects. As such, this volume provides special witness to the inherent unity of what might otherwise be seen as more episodic work. In the Introduction Jonas himself argues for both a biographical and a philosophical unity, the latter of which is emphasized in a new foreword by Carl Mitcham of the European Graduate School.

Philosophical essays: from ancient creed to technological man

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Jonas, Hans

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Philosophical Essays is a pivotal volume in the collected works of Hans Jonas (1903-1993), one of most important German-American philosophers of the last half of the 20th century. Of the four books published in English during his lifetime, it is the only one to include contributions from his three primary areas of achievement: philosophical reflection on gnosticism, on biology, and on technology - hence the subtitle, "From Ancient Creed to Technological Man." The three sections of the book are, however, given in reverse order with essays on "Science, Technology, and Ethics" preceding papers on "Organism, Mind, and History" and "Religious Thought of the First Christian Centuries." The temporally ultimate project is that which Jonas sees as having philosophical priority. This collection of 18 essays originally published between 1965 and 1974 - that is, after completion of The Phenomenon of Life (1966) but before The Imperative of Responsibility (1984) - manifests the most intensive integration of Jonas's three projects. As such, this volume provides special witness to the inherent unity of what might otherwise be seen as more episodic work. In the Introduction Jonas himself argues for both a biographical and a philosophical unity, the latter of which is emphasized in a new foreword by Carl Mitcham of the European Graduate School.

Philosophical Essays: From Ancient Creed to Technological Man (Midway Reprint)

The University of Chicago Press

The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology (Phoenix Book)

Science & Math

Univ of Chicago Pr

Hans Jonas here rethinks the foundations of ethics in light of the awesome transformations wrought by modern technology: the threat of nuclear war, ecological ravage, genetic engineering, and the like. Though informed by a deep reverence for human life, Jonas's ethics is grounded not in religion but in metaphysics, in a secular doctrine that makes explicit man's duties toward himself, his posterity, and the environment. Jonas offers an assessment of practical goals under present circumstances, ending with a critique of modern utopianism.

The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age (English and German Edition)

University of Chicago Press

The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age

The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity

The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity

History

World

Beacon Press

Hans Jonas (1903-93) was a German Jew, pupil of Heidegger and Bultmann, lifelong friend and colleague of Hannah Arendt at the New School for Social Research, and one of the most prominent thinkers of his generation. The range of his topics never obscures their unifying thread: that our mortality is at the root of our moral responsibility to safeguard humanity's future. Mortality and Morality both consummates and demonstrates the basic thrust of Jonas's thought: the inseparability of ethics and metaphysics, the reality of values at the center of being.

Mortality and Morality: A Search for Good After Auschwitz (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

Northwestern University Press

Hans Jonas (1903-93) was a German Jew, pupil of Heidegger and Bultmann, lifelong friend and colleague of Hannah Arendt at the New School for Social Research, and one of the most prominent thinkers of his generation. The range of his topics never obscures their unifying thread: that our mortality is at the root of our moral responsibility to safeguard humanity's future. Mortality and Morality both consummates and demonstrates the basic thrust of Jonas's thought: the inseparability of ethics and metaphysics, the reality of values at the center of being.

A classic of phenomenology and existentialism, The Phenomenon of Life sets forth a systematic and comprehensive philosophy--an existential interpretation of biological facts laid out in support of his claim that the mind is prefigured throughout organic existence. Hans Jonas shows how life-forms present themselves on an ascending scale of perception and freedom of action, a scale reaching its apex in a human being's capacity for thought and morally responsible behavior.

The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

Philosophical Essays: From Ancient Creed to Technological Man

Atropos Press

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Philosophical essays: from ancient creed to technological man

Philosophical Essays: From Ancient Creed to Technological Man (Midway Reprint)

The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology (Phoenix Book)

The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age (English and German Edition)

The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age

The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity

Mortality and Morality: A Search for Good After Auschwitz (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

Mortality and Morality: A Search for Good After Auschwitz (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

Philosophical Essays: From Ancient Creed to Technological Man