O potencial educativo do Princípio Responsabilidade para pensar a civilização tecnológica: uma proposta jonasiana.

Abstract

This Doctoral Thesis presents a theoretical investigation based on a bibliographical survey aiming to situate in time how much the Modern Technique advances, and the problems caused by it, endangers the existence and the future of not only the mankind, but all the biosphere. Due to the need and the urgency in supporting an ethics compatible with the exigencies of our technological civilization, Hans Jonas proposes the Principle Responsibility as an ethical proposal to think life in the future. This need for continuity of human life and extra-human is a priority for the ethics of responsibility. In this sense Jonas establishes an archetype to care and to preserve the life by means of the parental and public responsibility, and through the heuristic of fear a way to brake the technological advances and the progress. Thus, caution and prudence become essential means to guide the direction of the technological civilization. From the plausibility of these principles, we understand that they can be incorporated into more open, pluralistic and dialogical ethical perspectives. This longing, we find in the Jonasian theory an important educational potential from which theoretical and ethical support are seek to indicate possible and feasible paths to assist in solving some of the contemporary problems. Moreover, the Education, while a knowledge and value socialization process, presents an undeniably necessary character to awaken, question and announce what we must do in face of a civilization that irreparably lives the Modern Technique. Based on the presented theoretical reference we show that the Humankind must know how to make choices against what is presented, at the same time that Education must show a responsible, worthy and viable path, serving as a compass for living the world of today and of tomorrow.