Hans Jonas e a proposta de uma ética para a civilização tecnológica

• Main Author: Mario Sergio Alencastro
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Paraná 2009-01-01
• Series: Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente
• Subjects: ethics; environment; responsibility.
• Online Access: http://ojs.c3sl.ufpr.br/ojs2/index.php/made/article/viewFile/14115/10882

The contemporary environmental crisis is the framework for this paper. Modern societies face a great paradox: as technology is becoming ever present in modern life; its frequently unexpected and even dangerous consequences for human beings and the environment call for new ethical reflections. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to discuss the possibility of formulating an ethics of responsibility towards the environmental crisis of the technical-scientific civilization. To this end, the ethics proposed by Hans Jonas, an emblematic author in the environmentalism field, whose theoretical contributions seem to be very pertinent to the issues addressed here.