Sobre a ideia de autenticidade da vida humana na ética de Hans Jonas

Abstract

The present work discusses how Gnostic dualism gave rise to a fragmented conception of the human being, causing a separation between body and mind. It outlines how attempts to overcome dualism accentuated the division between the constituent parts of the human being, especially after the advent of the Copernican revolution and Darwin's evolutionism. It points out how the stripping of a sacred vision concerning the human being contributed to its placement as an object of modern technique. It presents the Jonasian proposal to overcome dualism through an integral monism, in which the phenomenon of life comes to be understood as a unity between body and mind. It discusses how such a perspective can re-signify the role of the human being with nature, especially in the maintenance of the evolutionary process. It systematizes Hans Jonas' thinking about the elements that integrate the notion of authentic human life, the basis of his ethics of responsibility insofar as such factors must be protected from the risk of disfigurement brought by modern techniques.