(Ebook) Everything Must Change: Philosophical lessons from lockdown by Vittorio Bufacchi ISBN 9781526158772, 1526158779

(Ebook) Everything Must Change: Philosophical lessons from lockdown by Vittorio Bufacchi ISBN 9781526158772, 1526158779

French philosopher Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) said that facing our mortality is the only way to learn the ‘art of living’. He was right. This book is about what we can learn from COVID-19, as individuals but also collectively. It argues that this crisis could change our lives for the better, ushering in a more just society. Exploring eight themes through philosophical lenses, the book asks whether COVID-19 is a misfortune or an injustice, considers the largest cohort of victims (people in old age) and discusses whether life under lockdown is comparable to life in the so-called ‘state of nature’. It explores the likely impact of the virus on the global phenomenon of populism and analyses the relationship between COVID-19 and post-truth. One chapter is dedicated to the role of arguably the most important players in the response to the pandemic: the experts. The book ends by considering the spike of reported cases of domestic violence during the lockdown via an analysis of the BB HardbackC adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People.

Moderator - Trump Derangement Syndrome. An example - 'By questioning the wisdom of the experts in the World Health Organization, or by insinuating that this virus was created in a Chinese laboratory, or by dismissing the pandemic as a mere hoax,Trump did his best to delegitimize scientific truth.Trump interpreted the disagreement between experts as a damning condemnation of scientific knowledgeand advice. ' Trump was right and the author's focus on a few misguided tweets out of the literally hundreds also just proves the point. The book is sorely out of date. The lockdown that continued in 2020 to 2021 was a hoax as well and not needed (July 2022 confessions by Debra Birx for one). The medical 'experts' knew this at the time.