Moral and political dilemmas at the time of the coronavirus pandemic the role of the philosophical thinking

Abstract

In this paper I propose a philosophical analysis of serious moral and politicaldilemmas we have been confronted with during the period of the pandemic of Covid-19, before and after the availabiity of vaccines. I draw on a variety of normative theories, mostly from moral philosophy, and try to provide a comparative assessment of the application of consequentialist and deontological principles, as well as of concepts of virtue ethics, with a view to highlighting their complementarity.