Responsabilità e progresso. Jonas, Apel e il futuro globale

Abstract

The essay discusses the foundations of the ethics of responsibility, comparing the positions of Jonas and Apel. In particular, it focuses on the relationship between technology and progress. The author evaluates Jonas’ ethics as insufficient in terms of the theory of justice. Preserving the natural should not be separated from the idea of progress. Instead, planetary macroethics should activate the socio-political conditions for the discursive realisation of global responsibility. The ethics of responsibility is connected to the ethics of progress for the realisation of the conditions of human dignity.