Authors :
Ekila Tshanga Tshanga Wilfried B.
Volume/Issue :
Volume 8 - 2023, Issue 8 - August
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8340439
Abstract :
For Jonas, existence is the necessary condition
for accountability. Before assuming any responsibility,
you must exist. But this necessary condition is not
sufficient; hence the contingency of existence as a
condition of being responsible. Through this, we show that
there are other conditions besides the mere fact of
existence that make one responsible or not.
According to Mr. Jonas’s words as revealed in The
Principle of Responsibility, it is clear that one of the
important or even necessary conditions for being
responsible is the fact of existing. Only the one who exists,
that is, the one who acts on himself, on the surrounding
world, on other beings, and whose actions have
consequences that can ensure that responsibility is
assigned to him, can claim responsibility.
Reading Jonas reveals that responsibility or being
responsible also requires something other than the mere
fact of existence. To be sure, existence is a necessary fact,
a prerequisite for liability, but it is not a sufficient
condition for holding someone accountable. If so, what are
the other conditions that make one liable and what makes
one so that despite the fact that one exists, one is under the
responsibility of another person or one is deprived of
responsibility?
In this context, we wish to set out two facts that
indelibly mark the fact of being responsible in the
Jonassian conception. The first is the one that deals with
the necessity of existence as a condition of being
responsible. The second shows that the mere fact of
existing, although necessary, is not sufficient for us to be
said to be responsible; that is why we are talking about
contingency. For, although we exist, becoming responsible
or being responsible requires fulfilling other conditions.
Mere existence is no longer the only condition for being
called responsible.
To exist as a necessity of being responsible is
revealed in four ways, namely the awareness of existing as
a condition of responsibility, the importance of taking into
account all aspects of reality for a global responsibility,
the imperative of existence as the guarantor of accepting
responsibility and the pre-eminence of the idea of being
on nothing and the individual as the basis of the
relationship of existence and responsibility.
After the first bullet points out the need to exist to be
responsible, the second bullet points to being struck by the
minority, whether it is in the infant or in the people, as a
cause that prevents someone from being responsible
despite the fact of existing. As a result, this cause renders
existence not sufficient to be responsible.Having said that, there are two points. The first
point shows that responsibility is linked to existence. The
second reveals the conditions that deprive someone of
responsibility, when they are not fulfilled.
Keywords :
Existence, responsibility, ethics, necessity, contingency, minority.
For Jonas, existence is the necessary condition
for accountability. Before assuming any responsibility,
you must exist. But this necessary condition is not
sufficient; hence the contingency of existence as a
condition of being responsible. Through this, we show that
there are other conditions besides the mere fact of
existence that make one responsible or not.
According to Mr. Jonas’s words as revealed in The
Principle of Responsibility, it is clear that one of the
important or even necessary conditions for being
responsible is the fact of existing. Only the one who exists,
that is, the one who acts on himself, on the surrounding
world, on other beings, and whose actions have
consequences that can ensure that responsibility is
assigned to him, can claim responsibility.
Reading Jonas reveals that responsibility or being
responsible also requires something other than the mere
fact of existence. To be sure, existence is a necessary fact,
a prerequisite for liability, but it is not a sufficient
condition for holding someone accountable. If so, what are
the other conditions that make one liable and what makes
one so that despite the fact that one exists, one is under the
responsibility of another person or one is deprived of
responsibility?
In this context, we wish to set out two facts that
indelibly mark the fact of being responsible in the
Jonassian conception. The first is the one that deals with
the necessity of existence as a condition of being
responsible. The second shows that the mere fact of
existing, although necessary, is not sufficient for us to be
said to be responsible; that is why we are talking about
contingency. For, although we exist, becoming responsible
or being responsible requires fulfilling other conditions.
Mere existence is no longer the only condition for being
called responsible.
To exist as a necessity of being responsible is
revealed in four ways, namely the awareness of existing as
a condition of responsibility, the importance of taking into
account all aspects of reality for a global responsibility,
the imperative of existence as the guarantor of accepting
responsibility and the pre-eminence of the idea of being
on nothing and the individual as the basis of the
relationship of existence and responsibility.
After the first bullet points out the need to exist to be
responsible, the second bullet points to being struck by the
minority, whether it is in the infant or in the people, as a
cause that prevents someone from being responsible
despite the fact of existing. As a result, this cause renders
existence not sufficient to be responsible.Having said that, there are two points. The first
point shows that responsibility is linked to existence. The
second reveals the conditions that deprive someone of
responsibility, when they are not fulfilled.
Keywords :
Existence, responsibility, ethics, necessity, contingency, minority.
