Hans Jonas : fundamentos éticos do princípio resposabilidade

Abstract

A research about the Responsability Principle proposed by Hans Jonas is the subject of the present paper. Explaining about the singularities of responsibility under the philosophical perspective that embraces a new ethical action towards the technological moment is one of its aims. The justification for the choice of this topic is on the necessity of expanding the reflection about human action in relation to nature, since it has not been following the environmental problematics of contemporary world. The philosophical question that permeates this dissertation is as follows: what are the main bases of ethics that constitute the Responsibility Principle? The central and secondary objectives are useful for understanding the ethical aspects intrinsic in the Responsibility Principle proposed by Hans Jonas and for the research about the characteristics of responsibility, as autonomy, reasoning and freedom respectively. Methodologically, for being a theoretical study, a descriptive research including a bibliographical research was used. The research is also characterized by the expositive typology, since it gathers complementary sources for the data resurgence and organization. The Principle of Responsibility can be understood as a concept that is closely related to the virtue and the sense of universal responsibility. Furthermore, it is a driving force based on an ethic of relations of humans with the environment, each having a role. Both of them are interrelated and as a new imperative for the entire human kind, taking into account that the continuous progress cannot be stopped.