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Published in German in 1979 (English 1984) with the subtitle “An Attempt at an Ethics for Technological Civilisation”. Jonas argues that traditional ethics dealt with the near effects of actions among contemporaries, whereas modern technology acts far into space and time and can endanger the survival of humanity. He recasts Kant’s categorical imperative: act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life on Earth. Where outcomes are uncertain, a “heuristics of fear” should give the bad prognosis priority over the good. The book is also a critique of Ernst Bloch’s The Principle of Hope and of utopian politics, and it was widely discussed in the German environmental debates of the 1980s.

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