MANCEPT Workshop 2023-Justice and Collective Responsibility in a Public Health Crisis

The workshop will invite political theorists to discuss justice and collective responsibility in authoritarian regimes during the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic has significant impacts on different aspects of our life, promoting reflection on how states respond to the public health crisis, how societies protect vulnerable groups, how families distribute care burdens, and how individual citizens balance their personal liberty and political responsibility. While most philosophical discussions on this topic focus on liberal democracies, we believe it is important to also consider justice and collective responsibility in the shadow of authoritarianism.