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Feb 7, 2009 · In connection to this line of thought, Jonas became an influential voice in the nascent field of bioethics and an inspiration to the growing ranks of people concerned about the outsized impact of human activity on the earth’s biosphere. In and out of philosophy, Jonas led an exceptionally interesting life.
- Alan Rubenstein
- alanrubenstein@gmail.com
- 2009
In 1968, Hans Jonas saw the biotechnological wave on the horizon and posed a challenge as relevant today as it was then: “If we are Jews – and a corresponding question Christians and Muslims must ask themselves – what counsel can we take” from our
- Lawrence A Vogel
- 2006
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We claim that he made an important contribution to the birth of bioethics in the United States as a philosophical discipline 40 years ago, when Hans Jonas published a seminal essay about the ethics of human experimentation and organ transplantation.
- David Rodríguez-Arias Vailhen
- From A Legal to A Moral Perspective
- Individual Responsibility as A (Bio)Ethical Principle
- Outlining (Bio)Ethical Individual Responsibility
Considered in its legal dimension, as accountability, and within the Anglo-Saxon context, responsibility is a part of bioethics since its origins. Going back in time, to the birth of bioethics, in the United States, we confirm that it was primordially shaped by law and specifically by court decisions. The Anglo-Saxon legal system, of a jurisprudent...
The specific notion of moral responsibility was only formally introduced in bioethics quite late. The first major text of bioethics that refers to responsibility, in its moral dimension rather than as legal accountability, is the Barcelona Declaration, in 1998, a European project to define the basic ethical principles in bioethics and biolaw. Respo...
After the WMA Declaration of Lisbon on the Rights of the Patient (WMA 1981) and reaffirming the dominant logic that every right gives rise to a corresponding duty, several organizations drew up a set of duties of the patient. These have not been unanimously and formally established so far, signaling the controversy that involves individual responsi...
- patrao@uac.pt
Feb 8, 2012 · Nor does he ook simply to use human nature as a moral guide. When the full range of his writings is considered and set in the tradition of his teachers, Hans Jonas and Leo Strauss, what emerges is a natural law position colored by religious revelation.
- Lawrence A Vogel
- 2006
Contributions from the group were published in a 1969 issue of Daedalus titled Ethical Aspects of Experimentation with Human Subjects. In the lead essay, Hans Jonas challenged then-conventional understandings of the moral problems posed by research involving humans and argued for an alternative moral framework.
Bioethics, political science, philosophy of religion, philosophy of technology. Notable ideas. The imperative of responsibility, 'right to ignorance' [2] Hans Jonas ( / ˈjoʊnæs /; German: [ˈjoːnas]; 10 May 1903 – 5 February 1993) was a German-born American Jewish philosopher.
