Hans Jonas Quotes
It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.
Jonas, Hans. "The Burden and Blessing of Mortality." Mortality and Morality: A Search for the Good after Auschwitz, edited by Lawrence Vogel, Northwestern University Press, 1996.
He and President George W. Bush appreciated the vakue and importance of immigration, but most other Republicans did not.
The Title of the Article has often been used to summarize his thesis in this quotation. It has been used so much that most people think that Huntington first originated the phrase and idea. Actually, it was Bernard Lewis. See {636820}
This is an incredibly prescient quotation. Dewey saw globalization starting before most realized the change. He wrote this in 1916. Almost a century later, we live with the results of the process that he described.
This phrase and the theory behind it are often misattributed to Samuel P. Huntington who first used it as the title of a talk at the American Enterprise Institute in 1992 and the following year used if as the Title of a very important article in Foreign Affairs. Huntington was very familiar with Lewis’ works and doubtless used the Lewis phrase as it perfectly fit Huntington’s concept. See {604193}.
Hans Jonas was a German-born American Jewish philosopher, from 1955 to 1976 the Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
