New hunt for Sataur


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The author suggests that the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, that humanity faced in the 21st century, can be considered as a reaction of the planet Earth nature to the aggressive man-made behavior of the modern civilization. If tensions arise in the noosphere, and the law of the struggle of species for existence is the way the living sphere exists, then there must be a counteraction between the "wild" life and the "wise" life. Perhaps the sudden appearance of SARS-CoV-2, that so "skillfully" resists all the tricks of the human belonging to technogenic civilization, makes it clear to the mankind that the type of attitude to the world that was chosen by Western European civilization and assumed a global character is flawed and requires, if not a change, then at least a significant correlation.
Stanislav Lem's story "The Hunt for the Sataurus" tells about a robot that was accidentally damaged and started doing unpredictable actions that are dangerous to people's lives. A group of spaceport armed people is intent on neutralizing the damaged robot by organizing a hunt for the "crazed" robot.
The new hunt for the Sataur - the hunt for the virus of the COVID-19 pandemic - is different from the one presented in Lem's story. The emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is not the result of a "damage" of something but the result of such civilization development, that is based on the opposition of culture and nature. Therefore, the victory over SARS-CoV-2 requires change in the cultural framework for the civilization development.
Humanity should learn a lesson from the “hunt” for the coronavirus COVID-19 – it’s time to get serious about modifying the values of our culture and developing a new ethics that would orient its categorical imperative not to the first, but to the second person (YOU, not I, determine the rightness of the act).

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Vladimir Konev

Samara National Research University

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Email: vakonev37@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8264-5782
http://www.ssau.ru/staff/340202-Konev-Vladimir-Aleksandrovich

Doctor of Philosophic Sciences, Honored Worker of Science, professor of the Department of Philosophy

Russian Federation, 34, Moskovskoe shosse (St.), Samara, 443086, Russian Federation

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