THE HERMENEUTICAL GAME OF HANS JONAS' RESPONSIBILITY PRINCIPLE IN THE SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT Mara Xavier de Almeida

Abstract

Considering the lack of natural resources and the growing concern on the environmental degradation, emerged the necessity of a deep analysis on applying the Responsibility Principle of the thinker Hans Jonas regarding ecology. The studies of language understanding on hermeneutics of the philosophical institute from the Hermeneutic Game of Hans-Georg Gadamer, with the environmental-based information, gives support to the philosophical concepts of what is ethics facing the principle on an ecologic scope. In this sense, the theme object of the article is the study of the hermeneutic game used by the State in the lack of public policies the aims to the application of the Hans Jonas Responsibility Principle into the environmental sphere. It is important emphasize that the goal of the theme it is not to exhaust the subject, neither deeply detail the issues that will be presented, but contribute with the discussion on the main propositions of the philosopher Hans Jonas, the Responsibility Principle as ethics, law and politics, discussed along the environment.