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BOOK: THE COURAGE TO EXIST: A PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE AND DEATH IN THE AGE OF
CORONAVIRUS

Posted by Staff on January 28, 2022

With the Covid-19 pandemic changing our modes of thinking, living and being, we
must re-evaluate the basic human values on which our world stands.

Author

Ramin Jahanbegloo, Professor & Vice Dean and Executive Director, Mahatma Gandhi
Centre for Peace Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana,
India.

Summary

The coronavirus pandemic is one of those historical moments when our past,
present and future seem to collide. Humanity is confronted by an ignominious
death — death reduced to a statistic. 

The fear of dying from an invisible, unknown enemy has changed our modes of
thinking, living and being, both public and private, even as lockdowns and State
surveillance measures—ostensibly distancing ‘healthy’ society from the impure,
‘unhealthy’ Other—have violated fundamental human rights and liberties.

Humankind is living its kairos, its propitious moment and opportunity to take a
decision—one which will impact each one of us. The pandemic has engendered a
moral crisis and vacuum. 

Humanity has no option but to respond to the more violent consequences of the
pandemic with a new moral, aesthetic and personal philosophy. To survive this,
and future pandemics, we must urgently re-evaluate the basic human values on
which our world stands. We must redefine freedom, the value of life and death.

It is the universal human capacity for empathy, hope and compassionate justice
that enable the possibility of a common ethical world of meaning and human
solidarity. 

And it is here that a potential future for humanity lies, suggests
world-renowned philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo in The Courage to Exist. Only a
morality of common humanity—valid for all human beings at all times—can redefine
the art of living, in the face of a death that we all fear.

Publisher: Orient BlackSwan

To know more about the book, please click here.

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