This article argues that the link Hans Jonas drew between Martin Heidegger's philosophy and Gnosticism cannot be properly understood without taking into consideration his philosophical interpretation of modern science. It claims that Jonas saw Heideggerian existentialism not as a modern instantiation of Gnosticism but as a specific experiential reaction to the new cosmological outlook that emerged from the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, which negated the conceptual world that made Gnosticism possible. Jonas's interpretation is “against the grain”: by claiming that Heidegger's thought is a product of the reduction of nature to measurable, manipulable, and calculable extension governing the modern scientific mind, Jonas attributed to Heidegger the very flaws Heidegger critiqued in others. It is further claimed that Jonas's original contribution to Heidegger's reception history is not in proposing the link to Gnosticism but in reading him as the philosophical outcome of the instrumental reasoning of modern science.

本文认为，如果不考虑他对现代科学的哲学解释，就无法正确理解汉斯·乔纳斯在马丁·海德格尔的哲学和诺斯替主义之间建立的联系。它声称，乔纳斯认为海德格尔的存在主义不是诺斯替主义的现代实例，而是对 17 世纪科学革命中出现的新宇宙观的具体经验反应，这否定了使诺斯替主义成为可能的概念世界。乔纳斯的解释是“有悖常理的”：通过声称海德格尔的思想是将自然简化为支配现代科学思想的可测量、可操作和可计算的延伸的产物，乔纳斯将海德格尔批评他人的缺陷归咎于海德格尔。进一步声称，乔纳斯