Mortality and Morality: A Search for Good After Auschwitz (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) - Softcover

Jonas, Hans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810112868 ISBN 13: 9780810112865

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1996

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

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Hans Jonas (1903-93)--German Jew, pupil of Heidegger and Bultmann, lifelong friend and colleague of Hannah Arendt at the New School for Social Research--was one of the most prominent thinkers of his generation. This book 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810112868
• ISBN 13: 9780810112865
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 218
• Editor: Vogel Lawrence