Pandemic 2020: Rethinking Ethical Questions

Volume 3 Issue 1 Winter Edition 2023

Abstract

Aim: The aim of the paper is to emphasize the ethical aspects of material and scientific progress led by the globalization of capitalism, in the wake of the crises of tha Corona Pandemic. The globalized transnational negotiations based on material development and progress have left out of the account anthropogenic damage to the planet. This paper argues that every action should be weighed in terms of the extent to which any new discovery or invention can affect all forms of life, including the non-human. Several debates have been at centre-stage regarding ecological damage, climate change and appropriation of shrinking resources in a world involved in the business of profit and loss, without counting the cost to the rest of the world or ecosystem. For a long time, ethical debate has been side-lined in favor of material gain. The present crisis demands that the ethical question be expanded to include the planet and all forms of life.Methodology and Approach: The study is based on ethics. Ethics traditionally deals with human well-being, and discusses the nature of “individual” good, the nature of “social” good and the relation between these.