Fear Of Moral Responsibility

Under the background of unlimited expansion in today’s scientific,Jonas’ responsibility had been come up. It is a kind of nature and future of human existence and responsible for ethics.Human beings must exist, which is the primary command.Jonas’ moral responsibility is different from the traditional ethics moral responsibility, its the essence is responsibility in the future, namely to be responsible for human beings of future and the whole nature.It has three characteristics:prospective, asymmetry, integrity.Based on ontology,Jonas demonstrates the rationality of responsibility for the future,and responsible for the future is decided by nature itself is good and the people idea.He insists the value of objectivism,and all living things have subjectivity, and subjectivity is showed by purpose. Nature itself is a kind of good, value or purpose is the inherent of nature.So we should be responsible for nature. At the same time, man is part of nature,so we also should be responsible for the man. The idea of people requires to be responsible for the future, and it is the righteousness of the transition from the goodness of life to the moral, which marks the transition from desire to responsibility.As to the subjective fear can become a common objective of fear, which bases on the idea of people and the principle that human beings must exist.Because the existence prior to the non existence. Jonas put forward the imperative of responsibility,which based on the fear to the principle that human beings must exist.In order to realize the responsibility of future, Jonas puts forward "the heuristics of fear". The fear has two aspects.First, the fear is the active fear and breeds hardship consciousness. Second, the fear is a "sense of awe".Here, fear is the main performance of positive value.Simple, caution become the inherent requirement of "the heuristics of fear". Jonas thinks the fear should become the virtue that the man pursuit.Because based on the principle that human beings must exist, the human must have hardship consciousness and assume their moral responsibility.Whether the moral responsibility come true depends on the fear become a man of virtue.From the community perspective, we should establish a justice government who are responsible for future; from the individual perspective, we should cultivate the responsible for future.