Koronavirüs Salgını ve Doğa-Kültür Karşıtlığı

Abstract

Nowadays, the world is facing a historical event: with Global epidemic COVID-19. In fact, this epidemic is an unprecedented fact in history with the level of prevalence it gained. It is the duty of scientists to find an answer to the question of how this virus came about, how it spread and what its effects are. Analysing the subject within the framework of human existence in the world, historical processes, concepts of nature and culture and reaching some conclusions from this field are among the philosophers’ interests. In this article, the aforementioned epidemic will be discussed on contrasting between nature and culture, and “contrasting” will be explained with the understanding of “sovereignty over the nature”, which is one of the basic mottos of the modern conscious. This understanding of “sovereignty” can provoke the contrasting between nature and culture, and when it turns into “exploitation” and “looting”, it can cause deep environmental problems that increasingly threaten human existence as it is today. Within the epidemic process, we had an opportunity to think on contrasting of between nature and culture, and to ask a question “how can we solve this problem”? In the following article the epidemic process is discussed in the context of contrasting between nature and culture, and tries to reach a question: “Can there be a perspective in which the contrasting can be into a harmony?”