Le principe de précaution et ses critiques

Catherine Larrère

Innovations, 2003, vol. 18, issue 2, 9-26

Abstract: In analyzing the philosophical roots of the precautionary principle, the article proposes that one can find two such fundamental ideas in the Responsibility Principle of Hans Jonas: first, the idea of a mastery (ethical) of our mastery (technical) of nature, second, the threat of catastrophe and the adoption of the worst-case scenario. But these ideas were adopted separately and were deeply transformed. The idea of the mastery of our mastery was politically reinterpreted, so as to associate citizens with technological choices. Jean-Pierre Dupuy has taken up again the idea of catastrophe, trying to demonstrate that one could give it a rationalist interpretation nonetheless. Only by understanding the idea of nature as complex can one overcome the limitations of each of these interpretations.

Date: 2003
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