Mortality and Morality: A Search for Good After Auschwitz
by Hans Jonas edited by Lawrence Vogel
Northwestern University Press, 1996 Cloth: 978-0-8101-1285-8 | Paper: 978-0-8101-1286-5 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-6284-6 Library of Congress Classification BJ1031.J66 1996 Dewey Decimal Classification 170
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Mortality and Morality both consummates and demonstrates the basic thrust of Jonas's thought: the inseparability of ethics and metaphysics, the reality of values at the center of being.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
HANS JONAS (1903–1993) was a German Jew, pupil of Heidegger and Bultmann, lifelong friend and colleague of Hannah Arendt at the New School for Social Research, and one of the most prominent thinkers of his generation. The range of his topics never obscures their unifying thread: that our mortality is at the root of our moral responsibility to safeguard humanity's future.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Editor's Introduction
Hans Jonas's Exodus: From German Existentialism to Post-Holocaust Theology
Prologue
Philosophy at the End of the Century: Retrospect and Prospect
Part 1.
The Need of Reason: Grounding an Imperative of Responsibility in the Phenomenon of Life
1.
Evolution and Freedom: On the Continuity among Life-Forms
2.
Tool, Image, and Grave: On What Is beyond the Animal in Man
3.
The Burden and Blessing of Mortality
4.
Toward an Ontological Grounding of an Ethics for the Future
Part 2.
A Luxury of Reason: Theological Speculations after Auschwitz
5.
Immortality and the Modern Temper
6.
The Concept of God after Auschwitz: A Jewish Voice
7.
Is Faith Still Possible?: Memories of Rudolf Bultmann and Reflections on the Philosophical Aspects of His Work
8.
Matter, Mind, and Creation: Cosmological Evidenceand Cosmogonic Speculation
Epilogue
The Outcry of Mute Things
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Mortality and Morality: A Search for Good After Auschwitz
by Hans Jonas edited by Lawrence Vogel
Northwestern University Press, 1996 Cloth: 978-0-8101-1285-8 Paper: 978-0-8101-1286-5 eISBN: 978-0-8101-6284-6
Mortality and Morality both consummates and demonstrates the basic thrust of Jonas's thought: the inseparability of ethics and metaphysics, the reality of values at the center of being.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
HANS JONAS (1903–1993) was a German Jew, pupil of Heidegger and Bultmann, lifelong friend and colleague of Hannah Arendt at the New School for Social Research, and one of the most prominent thinkers of his generation. The range of his topics never obscures their unifying thread: that our mortality is at the root of our moral responsibility to safeguard humanity's future.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Editor's Introduction
Hans Jonas's Exodus: From German Existentialism to Post-Holocaust Theology
Prologue
Philosophy at the End of the Century: Retrospect and Prospect
Part 1.
The Need of Reason: Grounding an Imperative of Responsibility in the Phenomenon of Life
1.
Evolution and Freedom: On the Continuity among Life-Forms
2.
Tool, Image, and Grave: On What Is beyond the Animal in Man
3.
The Burden and Blessing of Mortality
4.
Toward an Ontological Grounding of an Ethics for the Future
Part 2.
A Luxury of Reason: Theological Speculations after Auschwitz
5.
Immortality and the Modern Temper
6.
The Concept of God after Auschwitz: A Jewish Voice
7.
Is Faith Still Possible?: Memories of Rudolf Bultmann and Reflections on the Philosophical Aspects of His Work
8.
Matter, Mind, and Creation: Cosmological Evidenceand Cosmogonic Speculation
Epilogue
The Outcry of Mute Things
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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