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Hans Jonas

German Philosopher

Born: May 10, 1903

Died: Feb 5, 1993

About Man Nature Past Truth World

Related authors: Arthur Schopenhauer Friedrich Nietzsche Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Immanuel Kant Karl Marx Martin Heidegger Meister Eckhart Oswald Spengler

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. Hans Jonas

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. Hans Jonas

Together Creation Tree Our Once Latest Must Mute Over Powers Perish Revelation Mount Heed Themselves Lest Sermon Things

For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature. Hans Jonas

Nature Man Possible Determined Laws Habits Instance Part Taken Him Scientific Scientific Theory Causal His Theory Including

The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price. Hans Jonas

Truth Simple Losing Seriously Wish Past Whatever Living Our We Cannot Physical Only Could Simple Truth Price Thus Identity Without Real Go Enduring In The Past Cannot Either Means Therefore Present

The will to set values and the power to make them law are jointly at the bottom of all operative norms. When linked to divine wisdom, this source of moral law is still in safe hands which man can trust. Hans Jonas

That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation. Hans Jonas

Death Alone Nature Man Care Abyss Situation Nothing Other Cares Projecting Way Unprecedented One-Way Objective Only Facing True Does Contingency His Truly Meanings

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. Hans Jonas

Responsibility Become Way Criterion Unavoidable Civilization Imperative Development Modern Modern Civilization Human Human Actions Should Evaluate Special Actions Including Activities Assess Fundamental

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