Responsibility to Nature? Hans Jonas and Environmental Ethics

This paper presents the philosopher Hans Jonas’s idea of an environmental ethics. Through an outline of the development of man’s relation to nature from Greek antiquity to the present it is argued that science and technology in modernity favour a relation of exploitation which is partly the cause of...

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Main Author: Peter Wolsing
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The University of Akureyri 2013-11-01
Series:Nordicum-Mediterraneum
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Online Access:http://nome.unak.is/nm-marzo-2012/vol-8-no-3-2013/69-conference-paper/445-responsibility-to-nature-hans-jonas-and-environmental-ethics