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COVID-19 и днешните етически наративи
COVID-19 and the Present-Day Ethical Narratives

Author(s): Hristo Hristov
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Psychology, Sociology, Social psychology and group interaction, Policy, planning, forecast and speculation, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: COVID - 19; freedom; security; individual wishes; social duty; independence; interdependence

Summary/Abstract: The present COVID-19 pandemic in most spectacular way delineates the need of rethinking about a big issue that in general is the main topic in this article. In this case we must do that in background of the very pandemic. This issue is tied to the main line of division as a whole between contemporary societies – a line of division between the cultures appreciating individual freedom in respect of ethics and the cultures that stake on the value of the community life. There is neither an explanation nor an indisputable solution to this division, because there will always be a tension between these notions which build dichotomies such as freedom and security, individual wishes and social duty, independence and interdependence. These dichotomies are the dichotomies of the present-day ethical narratives which still determine what our societies will look like during global pandemic as well.

  • Issue Year: XXXI/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 18-23
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Bulgarian