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A Brief History of Ethics in the Presence of a Pandemic

Author(s) -

Curt Anderson

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

advanced journal of social science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2581-3358

DOI - 10.21467/ajss.9.1.27-35

Subject(s) - mandate , ideal (ethics) , pandemic , consequentialism , covid-19 , political science , law and economics , environmental ethics , sociology , positive economics , law , medicine , economics , philosophy , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)

The current COVID-19 pandemic has had a strong effect on individual liberty versus a consequentialist ideal of the greater good for societal norms. Rather than arguing for the current situation, I have chosen to take a historical approach to address the ethics of dealing with these health situations in the past. Ultimately, I conclude that, while at risk of individual liberty, a rule utilitarian approach, as backed up by epidemiolocal data suggests that a mandate for the greater good is more ethical than a simple approach to individual liberty.

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