Hans Jonas: Technology and Responsibility: Reflections on the New Task of Ethics
Reflections on the New Task of Ethics” by Hans Jonas, printed in
Philosophical Essays, 1974, Prentice-Hall. Identify what you consider the most
important or interesting (or controversial, or wrong-headed) concept,
assertion, argument, or conclusion in Jonas’ text.
(a) What is the item that you selected?
(b) What is the context of Jonas’s discussion of this item
— what purposes was Jonas’s discussion of it supposed to achieve?
(c) What are the crucial passages in the text where Jonas
discusses your item with the most clarity or depth?
(d) What are the most important claims that Jonas makes
about your item?
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