O stoffwechsel como primeiro gesto de liberdade da vida segundo Hans Jonas

Abstract

The considerations that will do in this article are going to analyze how the metabolism becomes mechanism that represents the first gesture of freedom of life, in Hans Jonas' philosophy. From this perspective this discution is in fact that life is a self-maintenance process where freedom shows up since the simplest structures of the organism to the most developed ones. Our goal is showing, from analyzes of the ideia of freedom and necessity, how life open it self to transcendence or, technically speaking, to new ontology.