Caritas et veritas 2021, 11(1):50-58 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2021.003
From ‘Personal Coping’ to ‘Social Coping’. How to React to a Pandemic, a Proposal by Ethics
- Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Teologická fakulta, Katedra sociální a charitativní práce, Kněžská 8, 370 01 České Budějovice
In the light of the existing reflections on Covid-19 issues, the text proposes a new reflection on the consequences of a pandemic from the point of view of Christian Social Ethics, its strategies, and reactions in everyday life. The author shows that common good, solidarity, and subsidiarity, fundamental principles of social ethics, are decisive in enabling authentic ‘coping’ to survive the pandemic aftermath. The main implication of the contribution is to show an alternative way of overcoming the breakdown caused by the pandemic state. The methodology the text uses is the theoretical-hermeneutical one proper to the humanistic sciences, leaving aside statistics because of their continuous changing.
Keywords: Covid-19, ethical response, coping, hope, resilience, Christian Social Ethics
Published: October 1, 2021 Show citation
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