Solidarity and COVID-19: An Introduction
W.J. Veraart, Lukas van den Berge, Antony Duff · Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy · 2021
How can governing in response to a global pandemic affect the living together of people and peoples in national and international communities? What does good – or bad – government within political, legal and medical institutions look like in such a predicament? This broad question is taken up in this special issue in no less than thirteen contributions, with a specific focus on the concept of solidarity, a moral-legal-political notion which is often invoked in situations in which the bonds within a community are put under serious pressure.