Das Ende der Notstandsethik - Softcover

Lüfter, Ralf

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3826076176 ISBN 13: 9783826076176

Publisher: Königshausen & Neumann, 2025

Synopsis

At the heart of the book is the question of the future of ethics. It is not about the role and function of ethical theory formation in the context of expected developments, but primarily about a phenomenologically oriented study of the ability of ethics to engage in the openness of the future in such a way that the future is not primarily opened up from the past. Starting point of the investigation is Hans Jonas' The Principle of Responsibility, which, in the wake of an increasingly technised and economized present, provides a finding on the state of ethics in the late 20th century. Thus, Jonas calls his attempt at an ethics for technological civilization significantly, ›emergency ethics‹ and justifies the need for such a law of movement through the advent of a meaningful movement, which is dissimilar in nature and magnitude – to everything that man has experienced so far and what ethics have been oriented to. The emergency ethics is thus a turning point in the tradition of thinking. She tries to correctly counter the technical-economically inspired law of movement and the resulting dangers in the form of systemic imperatives without thematising its own future viability. Where, however, the traditional ethics no longer corresponds to present experience, and ethics, as Jonas says, enters no man's land, the question of its future arises anew.

Edition details

• Publisher: Königshausen & Neumann
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3826076176
• ISBN 13: 9783826076176
• Binding: Paperback