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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The University of Akureyri
2013-11-01
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| 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 |