Collective Responsibility towards Nature and Future Generations

Starting date
November 1, 2022
Duration (months)
36
Departments
Human Sciences
Managers or local contacts
Battistoni Giulia , Erle Giorgio
URL
https://www.phil-responsibility.com/
Keyword
Responsibility Nature Future Generations

The EU-funded ReNa project will reinvestigate the concept of collective responsibility towards nature and future generations, from the perspective of the understanding of nature developed by 19th century German Idealism and the theory of responsibility advanced by Hans Jonas in the 20th century. The project will first focus on the rational foundation of collective proactive responsibility towards our world, which is the duty to protect it. This concept relies on viewing human beings as rational and responsible agents. Secondly, ReNa will investigate the role of human motivation and the consequences of human action as an essential segment of any theory of responsibility, thus bridging the formal foundation of the concept and its application.

Credit: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101064728

Project participants

Giulia Battistoni
Research Scholarship Holders
Giorgio Erle
Associate Professor
Research areas involved in the project
Teorie e pratiche della cura
ETHICS
Radici e culture della contemporaneità
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: GENERAL HISTORY
Publications
Title Authors Year
A biocentric ontology at the basis of an anthropocentric concept of co-responsibility to non-human world Battistoni, Giulia 2023
Ambiente e responsabilità. Verso una riattualizzazione delle filosofie della natura di Hegel e di Jonas Battistoni, Giulia 2023
Lebensprozess e organismo vivente. Elementi di contatto tra le filosofie della natura di Hegel e Whitehead – attraverso Jonas Battistoni, Giulia 2023

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