A responsabilidade: um novo fundamento ético no mundo contemporâneo

Abstract

Reflection on responsibility as a new ethical foundation, from the work of Hans Jonas. It is organized into three chapters. The first aims to establish a relationship between Ernst Bloch's principle of hope and the principle of responsibility in Jonas. For this, the theory of hope in Bloch is analyzed from the concepts of nature, utopia and technique. In the second moment presents a new horizon for ethics, through the critique of the principle of responsibility to the principle of hope. In this plot, responsibility is in question and the reflexive axis is directed towards the presentation of the heuristic of fear as an ethical imperative. The third chapter seek to describe responsibility as a phenomenon of life and technique. As far as the life phenomenon is concerned, it presents the responsibility in life, philosophical biology, authentic life and man and authenticity in nature. Before the technique will be delineated the movement of the ethics and the technique in the plot of responsibility with the future generations, from the jonasiano thought.