German-born philosopher Hans Jonas (May 10, 1903 - February 5, 1993) studied under Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Bultmann in the 1920s. In 1933 he emigrated to England; in 1935 he went to Palestine, in 1949 to Canada. In 1955 he took up lecturing in New York. May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ... 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Be there. ... This article or section should be merged with Rudolf Karl Bultmann Rudolf Karl Bultmann (August 20, 1884 - July 30, 1976) was a German theologian of Lutheran background, who was for three decades professor of New Testament studies at the University of Marburg. ... Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America and in Australia as the Roaring Twenties . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Travel guide to England from Wikitravel English language English law English (people) List of monarchs of England – Kings of England family tree List of English people Angeln (region in northern Germany, presumably the origin of the Angles for whom England is named) UK... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Map of the British Mandate of Palestine. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... State nickname: The Empire State Official languages English Capital Albany Largest city New York City Governor George Pataki (R) Senators Charles Schumer (D) Hillary Clinton (D) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 13. ...

He is best known for his influential work The Imperative of Responsibility (German 1979, English 1984). His work centers on social and ethical problems created by technology. Jonas insists that human survival depends on our efforts to care for our planet and its future. He formulated a new and distinctive supreme principle of morality, "Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life". This page refers to the year 1979. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... See also: Innovation By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a level of technological mastery sufficient to leave the surface of the planet for the first time and explore space. ...

He also wrote extensively on Gnosticism, for which he is almost equally well known, interpreting the religion from an existentialist philosophical viewpoint. Gnosticism is a blanket term for various mystical initiatory religions, sects and knowledge schools, which were most prominent in the first few centuries AD. It is also applied to modern revivals of these groups and, sometimes, by analogy to all religious movements based on secret knowledge gnosis, thus can lead... ...

Jonas' philosophy was influenced by the process philosophy and process theology of Alfred North Whitehead. Conventional Platonic metaphysics posits the real world of metaphysical reality as being timeless. ... Process theology (also known as Neoclassical theology) is a school of thought influenced by the metaphysical process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947). ... Alfred North Whitehead, OM (February 15, 1861, Ramsgate, Kent, UK – December 30, 1947, Cambridge, MA) was a British mathematician who evolved into a philosopher. ...

Biography

Jonas was born in Mönchengladbach May 10, 1903. He studied philosophy and theology in Freiburg, Berlin and Heidelberg, and finally achieved his Doctor of Philosophy at Marburg where he studied under Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Bultmann. In Marburg he met Hannah Arendt who was also pursuing her PhD there, and the two of them were to become friends for the rest of their lives. Mönchengladbach is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ... 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... These five broad types of question are called analytical or logical, epistemological, ethical, metaphysical, and aesthetic respectively. ... Theology is reasoned discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). It can also refer to the study of other religious topics. ... Freiburg city from Schlossberg Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in the Breisgau region, on the western edge of the southern Black Forest (German: Schwarzwald) with about 214,000 inhabitants. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Heidelberg (halfway between Stuttgart and Frankfurt) is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Doctor of Philosophy, or Ph. ... Marburg is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the Lahn river. ... Be there. ... This article or section should be merged with Rudolf Karl Bultmann Rudolf Karl Bultmann (August 20, 1884 - July 30, 1976) was a German theologian of Lutheran background, who was for three decades professor of New Testament studies at the University of Marburg. ... Hannah Arendt in her early adulthood Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975) was a German political theorist. ...

In 1933, Heidegger joined the German Nazi party, which Jonas took personally as he was of Jewish descent and active Zionist. The fact that the great philosopher was capable of such political folly made Jonas doubt the value of philosophy. He left Germany for England in the same year, and from England he moved to Palestine, 1934. There he met Lore Weiner, to whom he became betrothed. In 1940 he returned to Europe to join the British Army, who had been arranging a special brigade for German Jews wanting to fight against Hitler. He was sent to Italy, and in the last phase of the war moved into Germany. Thus, he kept his promise that he would return only as a soldier in the victorious army. In this time he wrote several letters to Lore about philosophy as well as love. They finally married in 1943. 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The term National Socialism has been used in self-description by a number of different political groups and ideologies, some of which have no connection with the Nazis; see National socialism (disambiguation). ... A bilingual poster in Romanian and Hungarian promoting a film about Jewish settlement in Palestine, 1930s. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Travel guide to England from Wikitravel English language English law English (people) List of monarchs of England – Kings of England family tree List of English people Angeln (region in northern Germany, presumably the origin of the Angles for whom England is named) UK... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... Hitler redirects here. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ...

Immediately after the war he returned to Mönchengladbach to search for his mother, but found that she had been sent to the gas chambers in Auschwitz concentration camp. Having heard this, he refused to live in Germany again. So he returned to Palestine and took part in Israel's war against the Arabic states in 1948. However, he felt that his destiny was not to live as a Zionist, but to teach philosophy, for which the best possibilities lay abroad. In 1950 he left for Canada and from there moved to New York City in 1955 where he was to live for the rest of his life. He worked for New School of Social Research 1955 to 1976 and died in New York City on February 5th, 1993. Auschwitz is the name loosely used to identify three main Nazi German concentration camps and 45-50 sub-camps. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The construction of the Empire State Building, 1930. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

Works

• Hans Jonas: Gnosis und spätantiker Geist (1-2, 1934-1954)
• Hans Jonas: The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology (1966)
• Hans Jonas: The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of Ethics for the Technological Age (1979) ISBN 0226405974
• Hans Jonas: The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) (1979) ISBN 0810117495
• Hans Jonas: The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God & the Beginnings of Christianity (1979) ISBN 0807058017
• Hans Jonas: On Technology, Medicine and Ethics (1985)

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External link

• Hans-Jonas-Center Berlin
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