Spinning ethical plates in times of pandemic and sustainability [new layout]
- This article discusses ethics in times of pandemic crisis (COVID-19) taking into consideration the sustainability paradigm. Two related ethical approaches are discussed and contrasted. On the one hand, the relational embodied ethics of the commons is discussed in the background of the pandemic of COVID-19. On the other hand, "lifeboat ethics" is interpreted in considering the pandemic situation. The main goal of the article is to compare the two ethical approaches as a way of dealing with our shared predicament in times of a pandemic, a state of exception, and based on that, to additionally derive conclusions about their application in further crises in the Anthropocene, whereby the primacy of sustainability is presumed.
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| Author: | Milena Valeva, Lurie Yotam |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:tr5-10842 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of International and Digital Communication: Sustainability Perspectives [new layout] |
| Publisher: | Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld (Hochschule Trier), Institut für Internationale & Digitale Kommunikation |
| Place of publication: | Hoppstädten-Weiersbach |
| Document Type: | Article (specialist journals) |
| Language: | English |
| Date of OPUS upload: | 2025/10/09 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2022/12/15 |
| Publishing University: | Hochschule Trier |
| Release Date: | 2025/10/09 |
| Tag: | COVID-19; global solidarity; lifeboat ethics; pandemic; public health; relational autonomy; relational embodied ethics of the commons; sustainability; the commons |
| GND Keyword: | COVID-19; Pandemie; Ethik; Gesundheitswesen; Nachhaltigkeit; Solidarität |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Issue: | 1 [new layout] |
| First Page: | 82 |
| Last Page: | 88 |
| Note: | Neues Layout des Zeitschriftenbeitrags 2022 (Jahrgang 1, Heft 1), Inhalt unverändert. Alter Beitrag unter: https://hst.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/279 |
| Departments: | FB Umweltwirtschaft/-recht (UCB) |
| Institute / InDi - Institut für Internationale und Digitale Kommunikation | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 10 Philosophie |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie | |
| Journals: | Zeitschrift für internationale und digitale Kommunikation: Nachhaltigkeitsperspektiven - Journal of International and Digital Communication: Sustainability Perspectives (JIDC) / JIDC, Vol. 1 (2022) / JIDC, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (2022) |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell 4.0 International |
