Ontology and nihilism in the environmental philosophy of Hans Jonas
by Charles Bonner
Interdisciplinary Environmental Review (IER), Vol. 4, No. 2, 2002

Abstract: This paper looks at two works of Hans Jonas from a Heideggerian perspective, contrasting the earlier, ontologically oriented philosophy of biology with his later and better-known articulation of environmental ethics. It is argued that philosophy's proper contribution to the interdisciplinary problematic must include an ontological inquiry prior to any attempt to work out a ''new ethics''. Only in this way, caught sight of in Jonas's earlier work but subsequently abandoned, can the nihilism of the value-neutral objective scientific enframing of the problematic be overcome.

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