The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age

By H. Jonas. 1985

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CSR and the Debate on Business and Human Rights: Bridging the Great Divide (2012, background): “…grows proportionally to an agent’s capabilities (Wettstein 2009b: 135–39), capacities (Miller 2005; Campbell 2006: 260), powers (Young 2003, 2004; Jonas 1984: 92ff.; Kobrin 2009: 350), leverage (Wood 2012), or their potential to have a positive impact on the situation (Santoro 2000: 143).”
Corporate Social Responsibility: One Size Does Not Fit All. Collecting Evidence from Europe (2009, background): “This responsibility is prospective ( Jonas, 1984 ) or a priori, and creates duties for the present or the future – and from this viewpoint, responsibility forms part of the virtue of justice.”
Innovation Systems for Transformations towards Sustainability? Taking the Normative Dimension Seriously (2017, unknown): “, [220,221]), a notion of shared responsibility in an IS context implies that future research is advisable on the role of power and capabilities (e.”
Suicide Ideation Detection via Social and Temporal User Representations using Hyperbolic Learning (2021, background): “We acknowledge that it is almost impossible to prevent abuse of released technology even when developed with good intentions (Jonas, 1984; Hovy and Spruit, 2016).”
Creating moral buffers in weapon control interface design (2004, background): “In a prophetic statement, philosopher Hans Jonas stated almost 25 years ago, “The speed of technologically fed developments does not leave itself the time for self-correction – the further observation that in whatever time is left the corrections will become more and more difficult and the freedom t”
Sustainable development and equity (2009, background): “4�3�6 Technology Technology has been a central element of human, social, and economic development since ancient times (Jonas, 1985; Mokyr, 1992).”
Perceptions of time in relation to climate change (2014, unknown): “18 This is reﬂected at a societal level, where legal institutions struggle to deal with liability where causal chains are hard to establish, and where consequences may not easily have been foreseen before acting.”