Coronavirus Crisis and Philosophizing

The mind prepares for questioning during fundamental transformation in the course of human life. The Coronavirus Crisis brought about a fundamental change in human life that had not happened in the world for decades. In order to deal philosophically with this crisis, new questions must be hunted dow...

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Main Author: Hamidreza Ayatollahy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Tabriz, Faculty of Literature and Forigen Languages 2021-10-01
Series:Journal of Philosophical Investigations
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Online Access:https://philosophy.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_13853_53bfc28dcc3007f4fc508dfe209d6caa.pdf
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description The mind prepares for questioning during fundamental transformation in the course of human life. The Coronavirus Crisis brought about a fundamental change in human life that had not happened in the world for decades. In order to deal philosophically with this crisis, new questions must be hunted down. In this paper, I enumerate some of these challenges. Some of emerging questions from those challenges is explained. It is shown that their analysis causes philosophical creativity and in the face of them we will find the success of philosophizing. Some of these challenges is discussed in the following field of philosophy: phenomenological questions about Corona, the new challenges in philosophy of science, political challenges, moral philosophy and norms in ethics, philosophy of religion, the growth of existentialistic attitudes to human beings, highlighting the issue of the meaning of life and the need for a philosophical answer, Corona Crisis and globalization.
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spelling doaj.art-49dc84055b2a4957925a76925c7761462023-09-03T13:17:35ZengUniversity of Tabriz, Faculty of Literature and Forigen LanguagesJournal of Philosophical Investigations2251-79602423-44192021-10-01153613214110.22034/jpiut.2021.46876.289313853Coronavirus Crisis and PhilosophizingHamidreza Ayatollahy0Professor of Philosophy Department, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, IranThe mind prepares for questioning during fundamental transformation in the course of human life. The Coronavirus Crisis brought about a fundamental change in human life that had not happened in the world for decades. In order to deal philosophically with this crisis, new questions must be hunted down. In this paper, I enumerate some of these challenges. Some of emerging questions from those challenges is explained. It is shown that their analysis causes philosophical creativity and in the face of them we will find the success of philosophizing. Some of these challenges is discussed in the following field of philosophy: phenomenological questions about Corona, the new challenges in philosophy of science, political challenges, moral philosophy and norms in ethics, philosophy of religion, the growth of existentialistic attitudes to human beings, highlighting the issue of the meaning of life and the need for a philosophical answer, Corona Crisis and globalization.https://philosophy.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_13853_53bfc28dcc3007f4fc508dfe209d6caa.pdfcoronavirusphilosophizingexistentialismmeaning of lifeglobalization
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