Afterword *

Political philosophy must be rethought as an enterprise and where the world is concerned it simply is untenable with citizens whose worldly interest increasingly spans the globe even from the physical comfort of their homes. The COVID pandemic might mean that people are increasingly isolated in those homes and away from the streets and public forums wherein we typically think that our being with others transpires, but if anything, the way in which we each individually conceive of our existence involves other people ever more intimately than before, as the great majority of people are aware that their own survival now depends on how other people, even halfway around the globe, inhabit physical space. The existential and the psychological are each natural, resulting in the classic conflict between unstoppable force and immovable object. The psychology that metastasizes in terror as well as in more commonplace expressions of narrow self-interest will win out. © 2021 Taylor and Francis.