Corona and the Answer to Other's Suffering in the Light of Kant's Duty-Oriented Ethics and Responsibility Approach of Levinas

Journal of Philosophical Investigations 16 (38):263-286 (2022)
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The corona virus has affected the lives of many people around the world and has caused physical, psychological, economic harm to human societies. Individuals' attitudes toward the sufferings and problems of those with the disease, and all sufferers in general at this time, are different, and this difference is due to differences in the views in confronting with others. According to Kant's philosophy of ethics, moral judgment is independent of any evaluation and is opposed to Consequentialism. According to Kant, the will of man as a rational being is a moral factor and the source of necessary law. According to Kant's duty-oriented approach, the moral act is merely to act with the motive of duty, and other motives have no place in it. From the perspective of Levinas, on the other hand, morality challenges the subject's spontaneity in confronting with the epiphany of the "other" face. The foundation of morality is in confronting with the "other" and involves infinite responsibility. Man's compassion for others is rooted in his infinite and asymmetrical responsibility to "the other." Kant's moral duty and responsibility for Levinas in the face of coronary suffering has its own effects, implications, and consequences.

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