Sublime

Jonas, Hans (1994): Das Prinzip Leben.

Hans Jonas teaches that mortality is the gift the living give to the future. The wonder of life, awesome and terrible, is that it renews itself constantly, by sloughing off the old and embracing the new. Jonas calls that natality, the way life is renewed through the birth of new, young individuals and a series of new generations.

Hans Jonas: “...nenhuma ética anterior tinha de levar em consideração a condição global da vida humana e o futuro distante e até mesmo a existência da espécie. Com a consciência da extrema vulnerabilidade da natureza à intervenção tecnológica do homem surge a ecologia [...]. Repensar os princípios básicos da ética. Procurar não só o bem humano, mas

qui l’a emporté… Le travail des historiens est aujourd’hui essentiel pour comprendre ce que le génial économiste Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen avait lucidement pressenti dans les années 1970 : « Tout se passe comme si l’espèce humaine avait choisi de mener une vie brève mais excitante, laissant aux espèces moins ambitieuses une existence longue mais

A great German philosopher argued that humans are precisely those creatures who always have their past with them and are always living toward their future, and that it is awareness of mortality that gives human life meaning, an idea that classical Tantra also embraced.**