The Imperative of Responsibility

Jonas, H. 1984. The Imperative of Responsibility. In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age. University of Chicago Press Chicago. 

Jonas, H. (1984). The imperative of responsibility In search (rf an Ethics for a technological age. Chicago The University of Chicago Press. 

The three chapters of part one sketch the history of whiteness through three periods in the American setting. The contending forces that have fashioned and refashioned whiteness in the United States across time, I argue, are capitalism (with its insatiable appetite for cheap labor) and republicanism (with its imperative of responsible citizenship). Citizenship was a racially inscribed concept at the outset of the new nation by an act of Congress, only free white immigrants could be naturalized. Yet as... 

All of the above families are imperative for homeostatic functions as well as the orchestration of response to pathogenic insult by the immune system. As investigations carry on, this large family wall likely see the emergence of additional cytokines and grow th factors, and the family and sub-families of cytokine, grow th factor, or chemokine receptors wall continue to evolve and expand. 

Thorough and well founded validation is therefore imperative. Routine monitoring is merely an extension of validation, and ongoing control comprises the systems of response not only to excursions beyond predetermined monitoring tolerances but also to potentially deleterious trends that may become evident within those tolerances. 

This paper has dealt with a wide range of international and national perspectives on technical education. The issues discussed have both long-term and short-term implications. The imperatives of globalization and internationalization demand prompt and purposeful responses and proactive initiatives if we want to achieve competitiveness, productivity, and national prosperity. 

The novel follows the efforts of the left to resist the fascist dictators of Europe in direct action in Spain, in underground activities in Germany. Two themes accompany this movement. The first of these is the imperative of left-wing unity with the concomitant question of the extent to which the individual must submit to the will of the collective. The second is the relationship between the political and the artistic avant-garde it is linked to the first via the role of subjectivity. In both these domains Stalin, although like Hitler he is never named, and the distortions of socialism carried out under his leadership are declared responsible for the failures which led to the catastrophe of fascism. 

In the development of new products, optimization of the fermentation medium for titer only often ignores the consequences of the medium properties on subsequent downstream processing steps such as filtration and chromatography. It is imperative, therefore, that there be effective communication and understanding between workers on the upstream and downstream phases of the produc t development if rational trade-offs are to be made to ensure overall optimahty of the process. One example is to make the conscious decision, in collaboration with those responsible for the downstream operations, whether to produce a protein in an unfolded form or in its native folded form the purification of the aggregated unfolded proteins is simpler than that of the native protein, but the refolding process itself to obtain the product in its final form may lack scalabihty. 

The analyst must necessarily rely on the expertise and efforts of others to operate, gather, and analyze samples and record (automatically or manually) readings. Communication of the goals, measurement requirements, and outcome to all involved is critical. It is imperative that aU involved understand their responsibilities, the use of the information that they gather, and the goals of the test. 

The most frequent cause of damage and even explosion in boilers is a low-water condition. This will expose the heating surfaces, which ultimately overheat and rupture under the operating pressure. Experience has shown that since the introduction of controls for unattended automatic operation of boilers the accident rate has increased. Investigation invariably shows that lack of maintenance has been the main contributing factor. It is therefore imperative that personnel responsible for the running of the boiler plant be fully trained and conversant with its safe operation. 

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