Hans Jonas Quotes on Virtue
Hans Jonas was a German-Jewish philosopher, a student of Husserl, Heidegger, and Bultmann, who emigrated first to Palestine and then to North America. This page collects quotes attributed to Hans Jonas on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Hans Jonas:
“Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life on earth.”
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Attributed to Hans Jonas:
“We must henceforth fear humanity itself.”
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Attributed to Hans Jonas:
“Responsibility is the moral complement to the ontological constitution of our temporality.”
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Attributed to Hans Jonas:
“Only an ethic founded in the breadth of being can have meaning in the future.”