Who Draws the Circle?

Hans Jonas and Responsibility without a Cosmic Signature Governing Claim Hans Jonas published Das Prinzip Verantwortung in German in 1979; the English translation, The Imperative of Responsibility , appeared five years later. He was then in his mid-seventies, and the book rests on a philosophical biology he had been developing since the 1950s. Born in Germany in 1903, he had studied with Heidegger…