| Summary: | Hans Jonas: Ethics and Theology in the thought “after Auschwitz”
Hans Jonas radically transformed the question of theodicy into the question of the justification of man, rejecting the notion of God's power in history. Starting from a speculative myth, he unfolded a process of theogony and cosmology for which God, in the course of evolution, withdraws completely back into himself, relinquishes his own omnipotence, and makes the world subject to human responsibility alone. However, Jonas does not wants to present an alternative (metaphysical or theological) schema about God, nor attempts to make sense of the events of the Shoah. He just wants to better understand the meaning of a God known as “omnipotent” but who cannot avoid the acid test of ethical demands, which challenges us not to seek comfort in ourselves, but to live in hope (and responsibility) for others.
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