Author: Hans Jonas

Quotes

Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.

Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.

- Hans Jonas

For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.

For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.

- Hans Jonas

We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.

We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.

- Hans Jonas

Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.

Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.

- Hans Jonas

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