Open AccessThe Ethical Philosophic Dimension of Responsibility in Mitigating the COVID-19 Disaster in Indonesia
Author(s) -
Sigit Sapto Nugroho,
Sarjiyati Sarjiyati,
Anik Tri Haryani,
Yuni Purwati,
Arief Budiono,
Heru Kuswanto
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
open access macedonian journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.288
H-Index - 17
ISSN - 1857-9655
DOI - 10.3889/oamjms.2021.7722
Subject(s) - solidarity , pandemic , covid-19 , dimension (graph theory) , medicine , social responsibility , responsibility to protect , environmental ethics , public relations , law , disease , human rights , virology , political science , philosophy , pathology , mathematics , politics , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pure mathematics
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is a global disaster and every country makes efforts to mitigate it. There needs to be a gradual rise of awareness on the ethics of responsibility to others in the form of a sense of solidarity and togetherness. Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas stated that the basic facts in his philosophy were other people. Therefore, his philosophy is the ethics of responsibility toward others. COVID-19 deserves to be a momentum to reflect on Levinas’ philosophy, by reaffirming responsibility toward others as an ethical fact in mitigating the COVID-19 disaster in Indonesia.