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Product details
- ISBN 9780226405971
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 15 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 1985
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Hans Jonas here rethinks the foundations of ethics in light of the awesome transformations wrought by modern technology: the threat of nuclear war, ecological ravage, genetic engineering, and the like. Though informed by a deep reverence for human life, Jonas's ethics is grounded not in religion but in metaphysics, in a secular doctrine that makes explicit man's duties toward himself, his posterity, and the environment. Jonas offers an assessment of practical goals under present circumstances, ending with a critique of modern utopianism.
