Cultura

Zukunftsethik: Discussing Responsibility for Environmental Sustainability in the Future with Hans Jonas as a Philosopher and Theologian

VOLUME 22, 2025

The Role of Targeted Infra-popliteal Endovascular Angioplasty to Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using the Angiosome Model: A Systematic Review

VOLUME 6, 2023

Norbertus Jegalus
Catholic University of Widya Mandira, Kupang, Indonesia
Norbertus Antoin Binsasi
Information Systems Study Program, Bina Nusantara University – Jakarta

Abstract

The threat of environmental destruction is a threat to human existence. The old ethics, which only consider the short-term effects of human actions on the environment, are inadequate to address this threat. Then Hans Jonas designed Zukunftsethik (future ethics), which focuses on the effects of human actions now on the future existence of humanity. This study is a philosophical investigation (metaempirical) that begins with a field survey (empirical) in Indonesia about Hans Jonas's future ethics. This study aims to explore the basis for why Hans Jonas burdens humans with full responsibility for the future existence of humanity and how we think about "divine providence" in the future. Is future ethics about to make a paradigm shift from theodicea to anthropodicea? To answer this question, the study discusses Zukunftstehik philosophically-theologically, involving several contemporary philosophers, such as W. Benjamin, E. Bloch, J. Derrida, E. Levinas, J. De Caputo, R. Spaemann, A. Naess, and C. Gilligan, and several contemporary theologians, such as E. Jüngel, J. Moltmann, and J.B. Metz. From this study, it was found that Zukunftsethik relies on Hans Jonas' theology of God, who is no longer "omnipotent." The loss of the attribute of "omnipotence" in God is based on what he called "factum brutum" in the Auschwitz incident in Germany, where God was silent. Therefore, the threat to human life in the future due to environmental damage can only be overcome through human efforts. Therefore, humans bear full responsibility for the integrity of the environment, ensuring the sustainability of human life in the future.

Keywords : Responsibility, Technology, Fear Heuristics, Existence, Human, God, Solidarity, Suffering, Utopia, Eschatology.
Erin Saricilar
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.

Abstract

Atherosclerotic disease significantly impacts patients with type 2 diabetes, who often present with recalcitrant peripheral ulcers. The angiosome model of the foot presents an opportunity to perform direct angiosome-targeted endovascular interventions to maximise both wound healing and limb salvage. A systematic review was performed, with 17 studies included in the final review. Below-the-knee endovascular interventions present significant technical challenges, with technical success depending on the length of lesion being treated and the number of angiosomes that require treatment. Wound healing was significantly improved with direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty, as was limb salvage, with a significant increase in survival without major amputation. Indirect angioplasty, where the intervention is applied to collateral vessels to the angiosomes, yielded similar results to direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty. Applying the angiosome model of the foot in direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty improves outcomes for patients with recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcers in terms of primary wound healing, mean time for complete wound healing and major amputation-free survival.
Keywords : Diabetic foot ulcer, angiosome, angioplasty