Rizično društvo i procesi decivilizacije
Risky Society and Decivilizing Processes

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to present decivilizing processes from the point of view of Beck’s risk society and the theory of reflexive modernity. Decivilizing processes in the risky society have been divided into two groups. The first group consists of risks facing the world today, terrorism, the spread of nuclear weapons of mass destruction, increasing social inequality. The other one are risks as anticipated decivilizing processes, those that are projected to the future, climate change as well as risks associated with technological development, especially genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. The key thesis is that we need a future-oriented planetary ethics of responsibility (Hans Jonas’s „Imperative of Responsibility”) to protect nature and to save future generations.

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