In this work we have presented ethics of responsibility according to the understanding of two main authors – Hans Jonas and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Each of them has a unique understanding of ethics of responsibility but with the same mission. Bonhoeffer defines it as responsibility for the other and Jonas defines it as responsibility for everything because of the others. As main source they both recognise responsibility, duty, freedom, the other before me and search for internal foundations of the absolute good. Jonas does not give specific guidelines, however he does present a lack of responsibility in technological era and also presents some options in non-religious sense with re-definition of theological foundaments of tradition. Bonhoeffer as a role model for ethical deed presents the persona of Jesus Christ and individual. His act of death is given a seperate meaning beside the cultural one that was presented by Mircea Eliade and his scapegoat. Jesuses death on the cross is freely acted role for the other. In the beggining of the work we presented sources of the ethics, man and his purpose, definition of good and of course mans duty. In addition we presented the concept of free act (freedom), which Bonhoeffer put into the center of his thoughts. Jonas however gives dictatorship some precedent against freedom and free act. Both of them duty and responsibility of individual as representative of entire humanity. Their ethics is in the rigoristic world of set rules, where a man is means of achiving the goal a nice refreshment. A man lost his sense of purpose in the modern world and with that his ethical view, tradition in itself has stayed behind and so gives him no true answers. Hans Jonas gives appeal to social powers to re-establish ethical purpose and failsafes as for Bonhoeffer, he appeals to every individual and Church to revive tradition and to evolve it so it can overcome challenges of the new era.
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