Kass, Leon (Author)
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Volume: 23(1)
Issue: 1
Pages: 51-69
Edition Details: A version of this paper was first published by the Hastings Center in The Hastings Center Report 25(7) (1995): 3-13. This version appears as part of a Hans Jonas Festschrift.
Language: English
In his The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology, Jonas succeeds in showing that and how every living organism is a psychophysical unity, archetypically concrete, a grown-togetherness of organized outwardly-perceivable matter and inwardly experienceable feeling-and-awareness. Refuting the corporealist prejudice, he restores the primacy of form to its proper place as an independent cause of the phenomena of life, but on grounds perfectly compatible with scientific findings and the theory of evolution. He also succeeds in refuting the homogenizing tendency of evolutionary biology, which denies the distinction between higher and lower forms of life, by elaborating the ontological ground for a hierarchical view of life. He shows the necessity of teleologic notions for a true account of life. And he shows both the continuity and the special discontinuity of the human within the domain of the living.
...MoreArticle Jonas, Hans (2001) Wissenschaft as Personal Experience. Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal (pp. 3-19).
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