scholarly journals Identity, Freedom and Relationships of Responsibility in Hans Jonas’ Philosophy

Problemata ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 04 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-27
Author(s):  
Angela Michelis
Keyword(s):  
Hans Jonas

scholarly journals Projection or encounter? Investigating Hans Jonas’ case for natural teleology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigurd Hverven ◽  
Thomas Netland
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Hans Jonas ◽  
Purposive Activity ◽  
Natural Teleology ◽  
Living Organisms

AbstractThis article discusses Hans Jonas’ argument for teleology in living organisms, in light of recently raised concerns over enactivism’s “Jonasian turn.” Drawing on textual resources rarely discussed in contemporary enactivist literature on Jonas’ philosophy, we reconstruct five core ideas of his thinking: 1) That natural science’s rejection of teleology is methodological rather than ontological, and thus not a proof of its non-existence; 2) that denial of the reality of teleology amounts to a performative self-contradiction; 3) that the fact of evolution makes it implausible that only humans actualize purpose; 4) that the concept of metabolism delimits and gestures towards beings performing purposive activity; and 5) that concrete encounters with living organisms are indispensable for the judgment that they are purposive. Lastly, we draw attention to how Jonas’ understanding of teleology and inwardness in nonhuman life in terms of degrees of identity with human life poses a problem for his view. In this way, we hope to clarify what Jonas, as an important source of inspiration for the enactivist project, is proposing.

Die Wahrheit des fiktionalen Mythos

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-328
Author(s):  
Raphael Döhn
Keyword(s):  
Hans Jonas

Zusammenfassung Dieser Beitrag fokussiert den von Hans Jonas in Der Gottesbegriff nach Auschwitz. Eine jüdische Stimme als Antwort auf die Theodizeefrage skizzierten Mythos und setzt ihn in Beziehung zu Fiktionalitätsdiskursen. An die Darstellung und Erläuterung des Mythos schließen sich Ausführungen zu den ihm zugrundeliegenden Quellen (u. a. Gnosis, Kabbala, Hegel) sowie zu Jonas’ eigenen Reflexionen zur Textgattung und zu den Kernaussagen des Mythos an. Nach einer christlich-theologischen Würdigung der jonasschen Religionsphilosophie wird der Mythos unter Bezugnahme auf Fiktionalitätsdiskurse betrachtet und auf Berührungspunkte mit jüdischen, christlichen und gnostischen Weltentstehungs- und Welterklärungserzählungen aufmerksam gemacht.

Hans Jonas

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Theis
Keyword(s):  
Hans Jonas

scholarly journals A teoria de Deus e o desafio do niilismo: Hans Jonas a propósito de Nietzsche

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Jelson Roberto Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Hans Jonas ◽  
Port Royal

Pretende-se, nesse artigo, analisar a interpretação de Hans Jonas do aforismo 125 de A Gaia Ciência, de Nietzsche, tal como ela se apresenta na reflexão desenvolvida nas aulas ministradas por Jonas no Carleton College, de Ottawa, no semestre de inverno de 1952-1953 e guardadas nas anotações (inéditas) intituladas The theory of God, conservadas no Philosophisches Archiv de Hans Jonas, na Universität Konstanz. Para tanto, partimos da análise jonasiana do medo do desconhecido como elemento central nas filosofias de Epicuro e, especialmente, Pascal, para mostrar como Nietzsche aprofunda a reflexão iniciada pelo filósofo de Port-Royal, a fim de demostrar como a intensificação do medo e do sentimento de solidão se apresentariam como possibilidade de enfrentamento do niilismo. Do ponto de vista dos interesses próprios de Jonas, não só estaríamos diante de uma teoria sobre Deus, em sentido estrito, mas de uma reflexão sobre a tecnologia como “vontade de ilimitado poder”, ou seja, como exercício do homem que, sozinho e sem Deus, busca o domínio sobre o mundo.

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