Hans Jonas
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Article abstract: Jonas’s philosophical works treat, principally, Gnosticism, existentialism, ethics, and metaphysics. The philosophical edifice that Jonas constructs is broadly based on metaphysics and the premise that there is a logical bridge between “being” and moral obligation; between “what is” and “what ought to be.”
Early Life
Hans Jonas began studying philosophy at Freiburg in 1921 and completed his doctorate on Gnosticism in 1928 under the supervision of Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Bultmann at the University of Marburg. Heidegger...
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