Environmental ethics based on Hans Jonas' principle of responsibility

Abstract

The principle of responsibility presented by Hasn Jonas is a proposal that seeks to raise awareness about the way in which a technological era has been consolidated, which threatens the natural order as we know it today and which is contextualized in the use and abuse that directly impact natural resources. but also that they generate difficulties for the human being himself, which affect his health and, therefore, the quality of life in conditions of dignity for all, since life on the planet is alternating thanks to the boom in technical and scientific development in modernity. In this sense, the proposal that allows this social situation to be solved is oriented towards the apprehension of the principle of responsibility through which scientific and human work can be accompanied and with which human beings can have a better awareness of their freedom in order to consider the long-term consequences that actions may have and that serve as an essential element to ensure permanence on earth and the flourishing of the human and the vindication with the planet regarding the importance of leaving it in habitable conditions for future generations. Finally, adjusted to a qualitative approach, it seeks to understand the fundamental elements of this proposal such as the new categorical imperative and the principle of responsibility, adjusting these ideas to a view that allows updating this proposal with the importance of an environmental ethics based on the idea of Aristotelian virtue and the ideal of Spaudaios that is required for the experience of it.