Lyngdoh Shining Star
Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka India.
Asian Bioeth Rev. 2021 Mar 13;13(2):235-243. doi: 10.1007/s41649-021-00168-0. eCollection 2021 Jun.
The outbreak of COVID-19 has raised a global concern and calls for an urgent response. During this perpetual time of epidemic crisis, philosophy has to stand on trial and provide a responsible justification for how it is still relevant and can be of used during this global crisis. In such a time of crisis like that of COVID-19, this paper offers a philosophical reflection from within the possibility/impossibility of community thinking in India, and the demand for an ethical responsivity and response-ability to act ethically towards the Other () to show that philosophy always already emerges from within the context of crisis. As an alternative outlook to the thinking of totalitarian singularity and individualism, community-in its possible and impossible making-can offer more meaningful engagement with the other human being by being responsible and extending care towards the Other. The thinking of a shared community life is the facticity of one's own being-together-in-common without the dismissal of individual differences as can be seen in the works of Jean-Luc Nancy, and there is an ethical demand that comes from the face-to-face ethical relationship with the Other as argued by Emmanuel Levinas.
新冠疫情的爆发引发了全球关注，并呼吁采取紧急应对措施。在这场持续的疫情危机时期，哲学必须接受审视，并为其在当下全球危机中如何仍然具有相关性以及能够发挥作用提供一个负责任的理由。在像新冠疫情这样的危机时刻，本文从印度社群思维的可能性/不可能性以及对他人做出道德回应和具备道德行动能力的需求出发进行哲学反思，以表明哲学总是已然从危机背景中产生。作为对极权主义单一性和个人主义思维的一种替代观点，社群——在其可能与不可能的形成过程中——通过对他人负责并给予关怀，能够与他人进行更有意义的互动。共享社群生活的思维是一种自身共同存在的事实性，且不摒弃个体差异，正如让 - 吕克·南希的作品中所体现的那样，并且如埃马纽埃尔·列维纳斯所主张的，存在着一种源于与他人面对面伦理关系的伦理需求。
