Volume 51 (1996), 5

The autors focuse on the problem of moral responsibility in H. Jonas’ ethics of social consequences. While by Jonas the attention is paid mainly to global moral responsibility, in the consequentialist ethics the individual, and social levels of moral responsibility of moral subject are intertwinned.

The paper is a comparative study: it compares the traditional European ideas based on Christian conception of death and after death life with the classical oriental philosophical conceptions and worldviews. The Christian conception is compared with Indian and Chinese nonsubstantial ontological theories as „nirvana“, i.e. blowing out into a stream of formless… Read more