Academicus International Scientific Journal

Title:
Between science, science-fiction and COVID19 as a way to interpret the ontological realm of COVID19.
Humanity in the post-COVID19 and re-application of knowledge.  

Author(s):
MSc. Chidinma Uche Iheanetu
chidinmaiheanetu1@gmail.com
Biotechnology Innovation Centre and Faculty of Pharmacy, Rhodes University, South Africa
0000-0002-4415-3813
Prof.Dr. Roman Tandlich
roman.tandlich@gmail.com
Disaster Management and Ethics Research Group (DMERG), Faculty of Pharmacy, Rhodes University, South Africa
0000-0002-9696-0473

Abstract:

The current article is an attempt by the authors to present a bioethical case, or rather a search being undertaken to develop tools to interpret the novel ontological realm which has been created, and continues to be transformed in real time, by the COVID19 pandemic and its aftermath. The ontological realm is new, but the physical features of the world and the human in it are partially constants and identical to the previous realm parameters, the pre-COVID19 space-time. The question of existence in the new ontological realm is...how can the continuum of Homo sapiens and its existence be sustained in this new realm? The tools being developed use of previous information and knowledge of the members of Homo sapiens as a starting point and source of metaphors as tools to facilitate existence in the new realm. In this way, existing knowledge, which is held by individual members of Homo sapiens, and which exists and continues being created in the continuum of Homo sapiens, can be the foundation for the creation of new knowledge about the post-COVID19 realm and the individual and collective comprehension of humans of it and in it. Conceptual metaphors, the creation of compound metaphor and the prospective dialectic are suggested by authors as a possible epistemic implementation mechanisms in this context. The adaptation of humanity, its imagination and some professions are used to demonstrate the case for the ‘new science of human existence’ in the post-COVID19 world. 


Keywords:
compound metaphor, progressive dialectic, coronavirus

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Presented: April 2022
Included for Publishing: June 2022
Published: July 2022, Volume 13, Issue 26

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