The talk, developed within the "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Collective Responsibility towards Nature and Future Generations" research project, funded by the European Union, aims at reconstructing central features of a model of living organisms elaborated upon by some Romantic philosophers in the early19th century and further developed by G.W.F. Hegel. It will be argued that this model is relevant to the contemporary philosophical biology of Hans Jonas, serving as a fruitful ontological basis for an ethical theory of responsibility towards nature, capable of combining biocentric and anthropocentric instances with interesting and original implications for environmental ethics.
This presentation is addressed to anyone interested in German Romanticism, Hegel, Hans Jonas, and environmental ethics.