{"id":855,"date":"2016-04-25T17:11:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T05:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiescent.wordpress.com\/?p=855"},"modified":"2016-04-25T17:11:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T05:11:24","slug":"jonas-on-power-and-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/2016\/04\/25\/jonas-on-power-and-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonas on power and ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hans Jonas on the inverse relationship between our powers and our ethics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now we shiver in the nakedness of a nihilism in which near-omnipotence is paired with near-emptiness, greatest capacity with knowing least for what ends to use it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Imperative of Responsibility (University of Chicago Press, 1984), <\/em>23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hans Jonas on the inverse relationship between our powers and our ethics: Now we shiver in the nakedness of a nihilism in which near-omnipotence is paired with near-emptiness, greatest capacity with knowing least for what ends to use it. The Imperative of Responsibility (University of Chicago Press, 1984), 23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,55,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-quotes","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}